Anzio: Struggle For The Beachhead. Paying a high toll in its desperate endeavor to win a victory, the Nazi Weimacht yeilds many prisoners, sheds much blood in counterattacking Allied positions on the Anzio head below Rome. ...
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Anzio: Struggle For The Beachhead. Paying a high toll in its desperate endeavor to win a victory, the Nazi Weimacht yeilds many prisoners, sheds much blood in counterattacking Allied positions on the Anzio head below Rome. ...
February 1944
Gelatin silver print
19.3 x 22.5 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0480
Inscriptions verso-(printed caption) "File No: OOR - 54412" "Released: February 17,
1944" "Anzio: Struggle For This Beachhead" "Paying a high toll in its
desperate endeavor to win a victory, the Nazi Weimacht yeilds many
prisoners, sheds much blood in counterattacking Allied positions on
the Anzio beachhead below Rome. In these Official U.S. Navy Photograph
a view of the wreckage of the little Italian town, and some of the
Germans who surrendered in the drive to recapture it, are depicted.
Heavy bombardments, at almost point-blank range, by the guns..."
1944" "Anzio: Struggle For This Beachhead" "Paying a high toll in its
desperate endeavor to win a victory, the Nazi Weimacht yeilds many
prisoners, sheds much blood in counterattacking Allied positions on
the Anzio beachhead below Rome. In these Official U.S. Navy Photograph
a view of the wreckage of the little Italian town, and some of the
Germans who surrendered in the drive to recapture it, are depicted.
Heavy bombardments, at almost point-blank range, by the guns..."
