The Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. Allied gun crews, under camouflage nets, fire heavy artillery against German positions at Monte Cassino. Views of the ruined town. A Sherman tank parked inside a partially destroyed building. A U.S. soldier picks through rubble in a gutted building.
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.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt family votes at Town Hall, in Hyde Park, New York, during the 1934 U.S. National elections. View of the Town Hall with many people gathered around it. A man explains voting procedure to President Roosevelt's mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. She enters the voting booth and exits again. The Roosevelt sons are seen in front of the voting booth. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the President's wife, stands in front of the voting booth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his mother sit in the back of an open automobile. As it backs out of the driveway, the President waves his hat, and applause and boos can be heard from persons gathered around the Town Hall.
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.
U.S. troops off French coast on D-Day in World War II . A ship underway. A sailor reads a message. An insert of the message which gives details about the Invasion of France. Another sailor reads the message sitting on the ship deck.
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.
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