Join the Navy and See the World 9. Anzio, Italy (Continued.)

This story is submitted to the People's War Website by David Thacker, a volunteer from BBC Radio Northampton, on behalf of his Mother, Isabella, wife of the late Len Thacker, and has been added to the site with her permission. She fully understands and accepts the site's terms and conditions.
Firstly, continued here are Len's words written in a W/T Operator's Log book, about the Anzio Operation (Shingle)in 1944. He is believed to have written this soon after the war's end:
"It was then that the air attacks started. They were very frequent and usually carried out by half a dozen planes, dive-bombing tactics being employed. An LST was set on fire by a near miss and an LCI was ablaze on the beach. Then, on our starboard side, an American sweeper hit a mine and went down in about three minutes.
These were about all the casualties we had in our sector. On the British beach, Palomares was hit on the stern."

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