FIFTH ARMY : ANZIO BRIDGEHEADANZIO PERSONALITIES - Capt. Alan Whicker, Officer i/c cameramen of the Army Film & Photo Section in the bridgehead. A former infantry officer, he has been covering war pictorially since the invasion of North Africa by the First Army. After the fall of Tunis he joined the 8th Army and invaded Sicily with the 51 Highland Division, covered that campaing, then with the assault battalion of 5 Division landed at Reggio when the 8th Army launched the invasion of Italy. He followed the Eighth Army up Italy, until crossing over for the Fifth Army amphibious assault aga
FIFTH ARMY : ANZIO BRIDGEHEADANZIO PERSONALITIES - Capt. Alan Whicker, Officer i/c cameramen of the Army Film & Photo Section in the bridgehead. A former infantry officer, he has been covering war pictorially since the invasion of North Africa by the First Army. After the fall of Tunis he joined the 8th Army and invaded Sicily with the 51 Highland Division, covered that campaing, then with the assault battalion of 5 Division landed at Reggio when the 8th Army launched the invasion of Italy. He followed the Eighth Army up Italy, until crossing over for the Fifth Army amphibious assault against Anzio. Unmarried a peactime newspaper reporter, his home is Fitzwilliam House, The Green, Richmond, Surrey. He says "This certainly has been a hot spot - I've had to duck more times in the last month than in all 1942", British Army
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