Seventy-five years ago, on Jan. 22, 1944, the Battle of Anzio (code-named "Operation Shingle") began with the amphibious landing of U.S. and British soldiers along a narrow strip of Italy's west ...

British troops are seen during amphibious landing operations at a beachhead near Anzio, south of Rome, as the Allied invasion of Italy gets underway, in February 1944. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

Some weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the Anzio Beachhead museum. Opened in January 1994, in the 50th Anniversary of the Allied landings, the Anzio Beachhead Museum is hosted at the ground ...

Landing craft of the Navy’s amphibious force disgorged their first supply cargoes on the Anzio beachhead last Jan. 22. Five hundred tons a day was then the limit.

On January 22, 1944, American and British troops made their amphibious landing at Anzio, a mere 30 miles south of Rome. American hospital tents being erected below ground level for protection from ...

Operation Shingle (or the Anzio Landing and Battle of Anzio 22nd January/24th May 1944) Chapter 1. of 6. Sentimental journeys never work, so I am told.....but I am not so sure.

A flotilla of 13 LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) sailed from Naples to begin the amphibious landing on Jan. 26, 1944. ... LST-422 attempted to land at the Allied-held beachhead at Anzio on Jan. 26, 1944.

However the presence of DUKWS (Amphibious vehicles) and L.S.T's (Landing ship tanks) at Salerno put our minds to boggle. These American driven vehicles were designed to ferry 105mm Field Guns ...