50 yards from the Germans

30th April 1944: A front line trench at Anzio with Nightingales and a dead German for company

Dugouts and 2-inch mortar positions of No.14 Tp. 5 Recce Regiment, with the graves of three men who have fallen in action in the foreground. The forward defence pits of this troops are on the skyline 100 yards away, and can only be reached as night, as the slightest movement brings forth bursts of machine gun fire from the enemy