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	Description IWM caption : 

British light cruiser HMS MAURITIUS ready for action with other Allied shipping off the beachhead at Anzio. Note the twin 4 inch guns at full elevation on the starboard side of the cruiser.



	Comment : 

This was in support of Operation Shingle, commonly known as the Battle of Anzio. 



	Date 

March 1944(1944-03) 



	Source  

This is photograph No. A 22535 from the Imperial War Museum collection No. 4700-01  
 


	Author 

Royal Navy official photographer