A Sherman tank of 46th Royal Tank Regiment drives ashore from a landing craft during the landings of British 1st Infantry Division north of Anzio, 22 January 1944. The Anzio battlefield was ill-suited to armored warfare, and tanks functioned more often as mobile artillery. 

Tank from Landing Craft

Those Allied troops who liberated Brussels experienced something akin to a Roman triumph on the streets of the city. Here, The British Second Army liberates Brussels, Belgium; Sep 3, 1944.

Brussels welcomes their liberators

Men of the 7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, British 5th Infantry Division take cover in a captured German communications trench during the breakout from Anzio, Italy; 22 May 1944.
The four-month Anzio campaign was characterized by trench warfare and artillery barrages more commonly associated with the First World War. 