Operation Avalanche Photographs | World War II Database

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Supermarine Spitfire of the US 307th Fighter Squadron rests on the beach at Paestum, Italy near Salerno after being shot down Sep 9, 1943; pilot uninjured. LST-359 unloads men and materiel beyond, Sep 1943. Photo 2 of 2	Supermarine Spitfire of the US 307th Fighter Squadron rests on the beach at Paestum, Italy near Salerno after being shot down Sep 9, 1943; pilot uninjured. LST-391 unloads men and materiel beyond, Sep 1943. Photo 1 of 2	Martlet IV and Seafire IIc fighters of Nos. 885, 888, and 893 Squadron FAA aboard HMS Formidable off Italy, Sep 1943	British Army General J. L. Hawksworth and US Navy Rear Admiral Richard L. Connolly aboard Biscayne, 6 Sep 1943, while preparing for Salerno, Italy landings

Light cruiser Philadelphia and a motor minesweeper making a smoke screen to cover the landing area from German air attack, Salerno, Italy, 9 Sep 1943	Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt and Rear Admiral Spencer Lewis aboard USS Ancon off Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	Unloading equipment on a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	Cruiser Savannah immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 2

Cruiser Savannah immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 2	Clark aboard USS Ancon, off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	USS Ancon (background), HM LST-404, and other ships off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	USS Ancon off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943

LCT-222 landed a jeep onto Salerno beach, Italy, Sep 1943; note LST-1 in background	LST-1 landing troops onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	LST-1 landing US Army jeeps onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	LST-1 landing US Army trucks and field guns onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943

With LST-1 in background, US Army Engineers hauled a roll of wire mesh into position to make a beach roadway, Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	African-American soldiers of a port battalion of the US 5th Army unloading supplies at the beach at Salerno, Italy, 18 Sep 1943; note DUKW in center and fresh water cans marked with 'W'	German PaK 40 gun near Salerno, Italy, late Sep 1943	A company of African American soldiers of the US Army working at a makeshift office located at an ancient Neptune temple in Italy, 22 Sep 1943