# " BEACHHEAD OPERATION - ANZIO " 1944 WWII ALLIED MORALE FILM ITALIAN CAMPAIGN 27474

This black & white WWII film from 1944, "Beachhead Operation" shows the brutal fight for the beachhead at Anzio, Italy. Day to day struggles of Allied soldiers are shown under heavy shell fire, trying to keep up the assault on German positions. Opening: Beachhead Operation (:23-:54). Artillery is fired at night, the flare lights up the night sky. Fighting in war. Bombed out town. U.S. Military on site. A bulldozer pushes debris in Anzio. Bombed out ruins. Smokey ruins. A baker makes bread. Bags of salt are poured. Men make bread dough. Dough is pushed down (:55-3:00). Men move the dough and mold it. Loafs of bread cool. Anzio. Crew lay out protective ground cloth on the beach. A balloon is put into the air. Ruins in Anzio (3:01-4:23). A drainage canal is filled with dirt. Military set up stakes to put up barbed wire. TNT is planted in the ground by the U.S. Soldiers work on a canal. Barbed wire is set up (4:24-6:00). At the bakery, the bread is ready. Bags are filled with bread, actually mattress covers. The bread is loaded into the back of a truck. Soldiers eat the bread. B-24 planes in the sky. A soldier watches (6:01-7:40). Sixth Army Corps for the U.S. are underground. Special staff discuss. An officer takes apart a shell and looks at it. Paymaster and account jobs. Currency is placed in bags. Men count it out (7:41-9:13). Soldiers work on radio communications. Maps are looked at and studied. A new road is found on the map (9:14-10:27). Patrol leader sketches out the…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/27474-beachhead-operation)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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