(WX3-DEC.3) 34TH DIVISION TROOPS ADVANCE IN ITALY – Troops of the 34th Infantry Division, disclosed yesterday to be operating in Italy, here march into Pratella, in Italy. This division is composed largely of Iowa National Guardsmen and also includes men from North and South Dakota and Minnesota. The warriors are an integral part of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Fifth Army. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps) (K-D6-XXX) 1943
21 April 45 – Fifth Army, Bologna, Italy – Maj. Gen. Utili, C.G., Italian Div., fighting with the 5th Army, (front seat of jeep), rides triumphantly dow Via Rizzoli in Bologna.
Photo by Graning – 196th Sig Photo Co (5/MM-457372)
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H-53. (SIGNAL CO RPS PHOTO FROM INP SOUNDPHOTO. WASH. D.C. 8/7/44) (LEGHORN, ITALY.)
Corp. Shane T. Moen, Minneapolis, MINN., is on the alert for enemy snipers while his Fifth Army buddies set off mines sowed heavily in one of the main streets leading to Leghorn Harbor, Italy. (FULL SERVICE.)
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CASSINO, ITALY – Embattled town of Cassino, for which Nazi and Allied armies fought for months is a ghost city. This view, at the entrance to Cassino from Route Six, shows that plainly. The first building at the left is a bombed out church. Other structures are so destroyed they are not identifiable. The broken walls are mute testimony to the four months of siege it withstood.
A-261 – INTERNATIONAL SOUNDPHOTO – SAN FRANSISCO BUREAU
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FROM INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS – SLUG (CRAFT-ANZIO)
ITALY – The rubble of an oft-bombed town gives dilapidated air to Anzio, site of the Allied beachhead where many lives have been lost on both side since the original “leap-frog” landing. In the foreground, a landing craft is docked to unload ammunition for the Allied guns. (v-4-25-44)
C993458 – OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO
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04-23-1944
(NY23-April 23) WOUNDED TREATED AMID ANZIO RUINS — An Allied soldier wounded by German shell fire in Anzio is given first aid amid the war-scarred buildings of the port city in the Allied beachhead south of Rome. (AP Wirephoto) (CCL 72125L-PL) 1944
March 3 – ALLIED WOUNDED MOVED OUT FROM ANZIO – American and English wounded in rows of stretchers on a landing craft, and accompanied by hospital corpsmen and Red Cross workers are moved alongside the hospital ship Leinster in Anzio Harbor. The Leinster will evacuate the wounded men, casualties in the fighting for the beachhead south of Rome.
(AP wirephoto from U.S. Navy) (GD61708) 1944
GERMAN POSITIONS SHELLED – Shells from American guns burst between the Monte CAssino Abbey atop Mt. Cassino and the Italian town of Cassino at the base of the mountain. The shells are falling on German positions bug into the solid rock of the mountainside. The Abbey, fortified by the Germans, had been used as an observation post until it was blasted Feb. 15. (EDS: one of a series) (FES/AK70700L-PL) 1944
(NY4-FEB. 26)
ACTION NEAR ANZIO ITALY . . . A crew of four is shown here manning a 57mm anti-tank gun, during the furious fighting in the Anzio area, south of Rome, where the allied Fifth Army forces are engaged in bitter fighting against strong German counterattacks. D.2.12.44 (LF876868)
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