Photo Anzio

Hi, I'm writing from Italy looking for photos in Anzio. I'd like to thank anyone who can help me.

 

IWM would be a good place to start
Search for digitised photos - https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/photographs

Are you interested in particular places, regiments, or nationality?

Good luck.

 

Thanks, I know the ones in the IWM archive, I was looking for something more unpublished, of the whole Anzio campaign and especially of Aprilia.

 

Alessandro.

Could I ask why you are asking?

Regards

Frank

 

Hi Frank, I'm a historical researcher from Aprilia, a crucial point of the Anzio beachhead. The photos are for study purposes and, if you have permission, also for publication.
Best regards.

 

Son and father, William R. Loop (1924-2008) and Roderick R. Loop (1895-1969) as they appeared in March 1944. Served together in the Anzio beachhead area and they are saying goodbye because papa got orders for return to the United States. Roderick also served in the first world war. I found conflicting information about the units to which they were assigned in Italy, but the vehicles are M7 Howitzer Motor Carriages.

 

German manned torpedo washed ashore. One account claims that about thirty of these midget submarines were deployed without success against allied shipping off Anzio, on the night of April 20/21 1944. The caption for the third photo tells that the pilot of this torpedo was taken prisoner and the contra-rotating propeller has switched on, spraying water on the DUKW recovery vehicle.





Neger (torpedo) - Wikipedia

A movie reel was made showing what is probably the same weapon after loading onto the DUKW.






https://catalog.archives.gov/id/76952

 

The remains of a Spitfire Mk VIII after a forced landing near Nettuno, Italy. Photo dated 23 January 1944 and the pilot was Flying Officer Leonard J. Dexter of No. 145 Squadron.

 

Newspaper clip from the album of Malor P.Mennell

These are 25 pounder Field Guns of 67th Field Regiment.in modified American DUKW's.
The first Artillery unit to land supporting the Assault Troops of British 1st Infantry Division.


Sherman Tank advancing to contact.
Anzio circa 4thFeb 1944.

photo from Shepherd Family Collection


Sketch map Anzio Landings


Aprilia in the background 67th Field Regt Jeep & crew taken after the Breakout.
photo from the Shepherd Family collection.

 

Stockade in the Carroceto district of Aprilia, Italy. The military policeman examines the I.D. tag for a prisoner.

 

May 1944 views of British troops in action at Aprilia, filmed by the U.S. Army Signal Corps.




Note the hipster sideburns and goatee on a German prisoner. Ornamental facial growth appears to have been accepted practice in the alpine divisions and that would include leadership figures such as General Julius Ringel.



https://catalog.archives.gov/id/15632
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24182

 

This speaks for itself. The city of Aprilia, being built..


Regards,

Stu.

 

Series of unpublished pictures from the Anzio campaign, made by LIFE photographer George Silk, a New Zealand native embedded with various U.S. combat units. The writers at Time magazine had this to say about the first photo posted in this message:

According to Silk’s typewritten captions …William P. Chirolas, displaying “things that men in M Company don’t like: Dextrose tablets — taste terrible, almost invariably thrown away; Barbasol — they don’t like brushless shaving cream, say it sticks in the razor; Fleetwood cigarettes — typical of the cheap cigarettes that come in the K rations; processed American cheese — gets very tiresome when eaten day after day … “The men complain,” Silk noted, “that the cheap [cigarette] brands are distributed just to please the manufacturers who want to keep their trade names going, and that the good brands are taken by the ‘Rear Echelon Boys’ before they reach the front.”

On the thin, worn paper Silk used to type his notes and that survives, yellowing and brittle, in LIFE’s archives (see scan below), one can clearly discern that someone — very likely a censor in the U.S. War Department — crossed out those particular observations with a red pencil. After all, the notion of “American boys” complaining bitterly about crappy tobacco, processed cheese and other indignities at the front didn’t quite fit the image the War Department’s Bureau of Public Relations wished to present to the folks back home. The more things change …

A check of draft cards and VA records at Fold3, leads me to believe this is probably the same William Chirolas who joined the National Guard at Waukegan, Illinois and later transferred to the regular army.


Medic, Pvt. E. Armitage, from Massachusetts, has likewise declined with using the Barbasol this day.


Traffic cop Ray E. Kellogg in bomb-shattered Anzio.


Nonconformist souvenir, taken aboard ship in port. Looks like the deck of a landing craft.


Preparing for a medal ceremony.


Self-explanatory safety warnings.



The Allies at Anzio: Rare Photos From WWII’s Italian Campaign

 

Ernest Taylor Pyle. Respected war correspondent for Scripps-Howard. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Noted visitor to the Anzio Beachhead. A life ended by a bullet on the island of Ie Shima.

At times embarrassed with self-doubt about his celebrity status, Ernie Pyle suffered from PTSD when these pictures were made near Nettuno and the strain on his face is evident. The steady stream of dead and mangled bodies during the Battle of San Pietro Infine was especially distressing for Ernie, but produced what many believed was the best of his dispatches from the field. He was an American Institution, along with the likes of Bill Mauldin and Norman Rockwell.

 

Link-up of VI Corps and II Corps in May 1944.





The serial number of this photo indicates it was made just before the previous one, but I could not find the original caption.

 

Guy bottom right of the last picture could not look more delighted to be out of it.

 

I understand that “Rear Echelon Boys” was modified somewhat in Vietnam.

 

He was probably relieved to be arrested and interrogated by the British instead of the NKVD.

 

Some rare, high quality pictures from a German war photographer found at the French national archives.

The description says, Northwest of Anzio-Nettuno, Generaloberst Eberhard von Mackensen, commander of the 14th Army and General der Flieger Alfred Schlemm, commander of I.Fallschirm-Korps, inspect the positions of the 4. Fallschirmjäger Division. Major Arnold von Roon, staff officer with 4. Fallschirmjäger Division, accompanies the generals during their inspection. On the front, the German paratroopers live and fight in the swamps of the Padiglione Forest.

 

Thanks everyone for the photos, they are all very interesting, Aprilia is my city and it's nice to see the photos