Steamboat Bill's at Anzio.

[Owen]

If anyone has read The Fortress by Raleigh Trevelyan you'll know he spends some time under a cowshed near the Moletta River that had been used by the Americans before them.
One of his platoon "Squash" named the cowshed after .....

a grocery business outside Leicester with a pull in for lorry drivers called Steamboat Bill's as a sideline.

I have already mentioned it on the GoogleEarth thread. here

I'd forgotten I have an aerial view in the 5th Divisional History.

Here's the cowshed or rather Steamboat Bill's.
From The Fortress.


Here's a map from same book.


Here's aerial view from 5th Div History.
See Stonk Corner in foreground, the track to the farm isn't on the map but the main road is that veers off to the right.
Middle right is German Wood.
To far right can be seen Steamboat Bill's. (I'm sure it is.)


Here is same area today from GoogleEarth.

[Paul Reed]

Good thread - make sure you pack all this in May!