Aerial views of Italy and France during World War II. Aerial view of a battle scarred farmland. Flares dropped over the farmland. An American cemetery at Anzio. A battle scarred farmland, flares dropped. A British cemetery in Anzio, Italy. The sun's reflection over water. An aircraft flies over a battle scarred farmland and tank traps. Corsican coastline. A mountain ridge and a waterfall. Buildings in a town.
Operation Shingle in Anzio Italy during World War II. Allied soldiers lay wire matting on a beach. Vehicles and tanks drive off a pontoon dock onto the beach. Troops on a tank. The tank being unloaded. Troops and equipment unloaded from a landing craft. The soldiers carry guns on their back. The vehicles are drive off the pontoon dock. Insignia of the United States on the vehicles. A jeep towed with a truck and taken ashore. A soldier eats food. Allied soldiers in a amphibious truck DUKW . Troops in DUKW enter the waters from a Landing Ship Tank and head for the shore.
Operation Shingle in Anzio Italy during World War II (Battle of Anzio). Allied troops unload ammunition and stack it near a wall on a beach. Buildings in the background. A Landing Ship Tank on the beach. Trucks tow artillery off a pontoon dock into the water. The troops on the trucks. The artillery taken ashore.
German paratroopers engaged in heavy artillery shelling against allied forces at Anzio Beachhead. Distant views of shelling and bombing at key locations. German Nashorn Panzerjaeger tank destroyer and artillery guns in action. German soldiers load fresh shells into artillery guns,1944. (World War II period).
German military preparations to fortify the Italian coast near Anzio and Nettuno, during World War 2. Thousands of German heavy artillery shells stacked in an ammunition dump in Italy during World War 2. German soldiers form line and pass shells and other ammunition to each other for loading into trucks. View from German Coastal shore guns overlooking the Anzio-Nettuno areas in Italy, before the Allied amphibious attack of January 22, 1944. German soldiers attend to their guns. German soldiers preparing more gun positions on side of a mountain. A German tank being covered with foliage, on a mountainside.
Invasion fleet assembles, with British, Canadian, and American infantry troops preparing for invasion in Italy during World War 2. U.S. Army ssldiers seen playing chess and reading newspapers aboard ship pre-invasion.. A U.s. soldier holds a puppy dog. A map shows the target places Anzio and Nettuno which are south of Rome. Landing ships and barges seen. Troops and heavy equipment arrive and are seen going ashore at Anzio and Nettuno. German dive bomber aircraft arrive on 2nd day and bomb Allied targets. A allied landing craft is hit and a large explosion is seen. Amphibious tank unloaded from landing craft. Near Anzio, dead German soldiers are seen on streets as Allied troops move in. German prisoners are taken by allies. British troops guarding captured German soldiers. A captured Nazi German officer is shown. and German soldier prisoners smoke cigarettes.