A U.S. destroyer at Anzio harbor, Italy during World War II. Tracers are fired at German aircraft from the U.S. DD (destroyer). 20mm gun crews fire. Tracers being fired from an AA (antiaircraft gun).
Filmed from the U.S. destroyer escort, USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136) in Anzio harbor, Italy during World War 2. A British Spitfire fighter flies almost directly overhead. A U.S. Patrol Torpedo (PT) boat is seen moving in the water. It passes near a Higgins Boat carrying several occupants. An American P-51 fighter plane flies past, in the background, at less than a thousand feet above the water. Next, two PT boats are seen near the Higgins Boat. Scene shifts to a PT boat creating a notable wake as it turns to port, past the camera, at high speed. It then turns to starboard and moves away at high speed.
Wrecked Allied equipment in Anzio, Italy during world War II. Hood of an Allied Army jeep with an insignia and bullet holes in it. Much of the jeep has been stripped for parts. An overturned Bren gun carrier with large holes in the bottom, again stripped of usable parts. A wrecked gun carrier. A British soldier with a tire that was torn by a shrapnel.
British soldiers at a beachhead in Anzio, Italy during World War II. A British soldier of 2nd Brigade of 1st Division digs a bivouac hole. Another soldier relaxes as he drinks from a bottle of beer and then passes it to the man digging the fox hole. The soldiers drink from the bottle and continue to dig the hole. Soldiers cut logs of wood with hammer and place them across the top upon the completion of the hole. A soldier stands in the hole. A soldier works with a shovel. A tent in the background. A soldier in the hole with crates around it. A sign near the dugout reads ' Hotel Picadilly'.
An air raid over Anzio, Italy during World War II. American soldiers load shells in a 40 mm anti aircraft gun. An officer looks through binoculars. The anti aircraft gun being fired. Flaks burst in the sky and smoke rises from behind a building.
American soldiers at Anzio beachhead in Italy during World War II. Beer barrels lined up at the beachhead. A jeep loaded with beer barrels arrives and soldiers unload the barrels. The barrels being piled up one over the other. The soldiers gathered around a wrecked German aircraft. They look at the aircraft. A soldier searches through the wreckage. Debris on a field. A gun emplacement on the field. The soldiers fire a 50 caliber water cooled machine gun. A soldier stencils a swastika on the side of the emplacement showing the record of airplanes downed by them.
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