A landing craft is docked to unload ammunition for the Allied guns in the battered city of Anzio, Italy in April 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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"File No: 59348 April 25, 1944 Battered Anzi. The rubble of an oft-bombed town gives a dilapidated air to Anzio, site of the Allied beachhead where many lives have been lost on both sides since the original 'leap-frog' landing. In the foreground, a landing craft is docked to unload ammunition for the Allied guns." Italy. 25 April 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Anzio
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41.450
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12.617
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Italy
Sailors--American--Italy
Shells (Ammunition)--Italy
War damage--Italy
Landing craft--American--Italy