American soldiers on a captured German 280 mm railway gun Krupp K5, damaged as a result of allied bombing in the depot of the Italian city of Civitavecchia (Civitavecchia). In Italy there were two guns in its class with the name 'Robert' and 'Leopold', nicknamed by the Americans as 'Anzio Annie' and 'Anzio Express'. Both guns were captured by the Allies in June 1944, in Civitavecchia. The guns were actively used by the Germans to bombard the Allied bridgehead at Anzio.