Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, during World War Two. Views of distant snow-covered mountain and nearby town and Abbey of Monte Cassino. U.S gunners stack, load and fire artillery shells from heavy gun under camouflage net. View of the Abbey on the mountain. Smoke rises from shelling of German positions. Numerous Allied guns fire from camouflaged positions. A camouflaged Allied gun firing from a farmyard, next to the farmhouse. The town of Monte Cassino being reduced to rubble by shelling. The Abbey, on the mountain overlooking the town, was not attacked, and appears undamaged.
Allied troops at the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy during World War II. Ruins of a building and rubble. A tank parked inside the destroyed building. A soldier gets onto the tank. Bombardment in the target area. Smoke rises due to the same. Destroyed houses in Cassino town. People flee from the place with their luggage. They hold their luggage and some luggage loaded on donkeys.
The allied Italian Campaign in World War II. British troops in jeeps, half-tracks, trucks, and tanks advance rapidly along a road in Italy. British infantry walking single file along the roadside. Fires burning on distant hillside. Camouflaged tanks on the road. British troops in an established position, firing mortars. A British gun crew firing heavy artillery. A Vickers machine gun being fired from a fortified position by British soldiers. View inside the bunker, of a British machine gunner firing the Vickers gun as an assistant feeds belt ammunition. Smoke rising in distance from shelling. Sherman tanks advancing along a road. British soldiers escorting German prisoners of war. U.S. soldiers guard large number of German prisoners of war, marching along a road.
View from a U.S. Landing Craft Infantry (LcI), of four Coastguardsmen in a sinking Higgins boat from the Attack Transport, USS Bayfield (APA-33), off Omaha Beach on D-day, in World War 2. Another Higgins boat, from the Bayfield is nearby. The four Coastguardsmen pose standing in their stricken boat. Then it goes under and they must swim. The LCI crew throw life rings to them and pull them aboard.
Off the coast of Normandy on D-Day. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT) damaged by a mine. A ship underway in the background. PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat and loaded LCTs sail towards a beach.
Large Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L) docked in Weymouth, England, the day before D-Day, in World War 2. Seen are LCI(L)s numbered: 493, 495, and 491, part of Flotilla 10, operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. Small boat traffic in the channel includes Landing crafts Vehicle, Personnel (LCVPs) and other boats.
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