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U.S. soldiers and engineers construct a bridge and fill purified water in tanks in Italy during the Italian Campaign
A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Animated map of Italy. Soldiers fire guns in a small town. Smoke rises due to firing. U.S. soldiers on tanks and trucks enter the town. Damaged buildings and rubble on a street. Troops walk past damaged building. U.S. troops and engineers construct of a bridge. They use a mobile crane for fast construction. The mobile crane in water. Troops at work during the construction. A truck moves on the bridge. The troops fill drinking water in tanks. A soldier fills hot water in a shower tank. Animated map of Italy shows U.S. troops moving towards their next destination. A small town and a dead soldier. The Volturno River. U.S. 3rd Infantry Division advances. A soldier carries a wounded German soldier and loads him in a jeep. Civilians are given first aid by the soldiers. An oil pipeline passing over a river. Two soldiers seated near the pipeline. U.S. Army soldiers filling 5 gallon jerry cans with gasoline fuel and loading the gas cans into the back of a truck.
USAAF 321st bomb group B-25s attack bridge near Capua, Italy., during World War II
B-25 of the U.S. Army Air Forces 321st Bombardment Group parked at Grottaglie Airfield in Italy, during World War 2. It displays nose art showing two cartoon characters and lettering reading: "Sylvester the Snarp." Two characters are shown. The smallest shoulders a bomb. Missions flown by the plane are recorded with bombs painted on its fuselage. Momentary glimpse of another B-25 parked in the distance. Scene shifts to aerial view of bends in the Volturno River near Capua, Italy. At lower right of image, smoke can be seen rising from explosions as bombs strike a bridge over the river and nearby roadways. View from overflying aircraft is obscured momentarily by cloud cover. Then network of roads is clearly seen. Scene shifts to B-25 bombers flying in formation.
U.S. Army troops encamped at Temple of Hera and views of bombed rail yard in Italy (WW2)
U.S. Army troops camped among the ruins of the ancient Greek Temple of Hera II (erroneously called the Temple of Neptune) near Paestum, Province of Salerno, Italy during World War II. Clothing of U.S. Army soldiers hanging to dry between pillars of the temple. A soldier smoking a cigarette beside a column of the Second Temple of Hera (Via Magna Graecia, 917, 84047 Capaccio SA, Italy). Views of a bombed out and destroyed rail yard and trains near Paestum Italy. Army trucks including personnel carriers and other vehicles moving on a road. Vehicles cross the narrow bridge at Triflisco over the Volturno River, built by the 343rd Engineers.
Activities of U.S. troops before attacking the German Winter Line in Italy during the Italian Campaign.
A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Animated map of Italy shows the location of U.S. troops. The Volturno River and a damaged bridge on the river. Light vehicles cross over the bridge. Soldiers carry shovels. Vehicles move from a temporary bridge. A damaged bridge. Trucks drive on a mud road and on the temporary bridge. A soldier walks through mud. Water on a road and a jeep drives through the water. Animated map shows the German Winter Line on mountain Mignano. A damaged bridge. Trucks move on a mud road. A soldier erects a sign board. Troops at work during the construction of a bridge. Mules carry supplies on their back. The troops load the supplies on the back of the mules. The mules carry the supplies and move. Animated map shows the location of British and U.S. troops before attacking the German Winter Line.
Allied assaults against the German Gustav Line at Monte Cassino, Italy during World War II
Opening scene shows peaceful Italian mountains, including one snow-capped, in Spring, 1944, during World War 2. Camera focuses on the town of Monte Cassino and its historic Monastery, on a mountain above the town. (German forces held the Rapido-Gari, Liri and Garigliano valleys and some of the surrounding peaks and ridges that formed the heavily defended Gustav Line.) Animated relief map shows where, by mid January, 1944, American, Polish, and British forces had cleared the enemy from mountains east of Cassino and drawn up on the east side of the Rapido valley. Map shows progress of subsequent Allied attacks that finally reached Mount Castellone and then up Abbey Hill at Monte cassino, itself. Image of German soldier is superimposed on the scene, using binoculars on Abbey hilltop to observe Allied forces. (Narrator states: On February 9th, 75 yards from the abbey, we were stuck.") U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft are seen starting engines. Closeup of Fifth Army leaflet warning the local people to leave the Monte Cassino Abbey to avoid shelling and bombing. View of U.S. troops packing the leaflets into thin-skinned shells to deliver the warning by artillery fire. Next, 105 howitzer guns are seen under camouflage netting, firing bombardments of warning shells. Formation of A-20 aircraft taking off. Aerial view from high above, of B-25 bomber formation in flight. Formations of B-17s, B-24s, B-26s in flight enroute to bomb Monte Cassino. Bombs dropping from B-25 Mitchell bombers. Bombs exploding on Monte Cassino and the Abbey. Batteries of 155 mm guns firing. Formation of 6 B-25 bombers in formation. More bombs bursting on Monte Cassino. Animated map shows German forces taking up their earlier defenses again following the Allied artillery and air attacks. It also shows supplies streaming in to the German Green Devils Parachute Division (Luftwaffe’s 1st Fallschirmjaeger [Parachute-Hunter] division.) The map illustrates all the locations in the town that they occupied and would defend to the last man. Map also illustrates circling positions of Allied artillery batteries. Camera focuses on Polish troops and M4 Sherman tanks moving forward in an offensive. Glimpse of U.S. Army Air Forces mechanics working on a Douglas bomber engine. M4 prime movers towing 155mm howitzer guns. Gun crews camouflaging their positions with netting. Various views of A 240mm howitzer being put in place by a crane. Soldiers deploy detector microphones to locate enemy gunfire sources. They test them, and then enclose them in water-proof containers, bury and cover them. Sound from the microphones being recorded on film at a machine in the Command Post. The data being plotted on a map and corresponding grid locations phoned to Battalion headquarters. View of bombers resuming attacks again, on March 15, 1944. Formations of Douglas bombers, followed by B-25s, seen dropping bombs that explode in the town of Monte Cassino. Artillery firing. Formation of B-24 Liberator bombers in flight. Formation of B-17s dropping bombs. String of bombs exploding in a line on the town. More views of artillery barrages. More lines of bombs exploding. Allied forces storming the shattered town found German soldiers using destroyed structures as shelters to fire from and rubble obstructing the movements of Allied tanks, so the Allied advance was again stopped. Later, a newspaper headline reports resumption of Allied offensive.
U.S. Army forces assault the German Winter Line of Defense during the Italian campaign of World War II
American troops of the 45th Infantry Division, are seen in mountains after breaking through the first segment of the German Winter Line, near San Pietro Infine, Italy, in World War 2. It is Christmas Day, 1943 and they occupy Mount Lungo. They receive Christmas dinner in their individual mass kits and sit down on the ground to eat it. On December 28th, they employ pack mules and also use stretchers to retrieve remains of fallen 3rd Division defenders down the steep mountain trails of Mount Lungo. They place the carefully wrapped remains at the base of a bullet pock-marked stone structure. Scene shifts to Mount Sammucro where American troops take advantage of a brief lull in fighting. On 1 January, 1944, Second Corp reinforcements have arrived and Americans commence a new assault on the German Winter Line defenses, with an artillery barrage on German positions guarding San Vittore del Lazio. View of smoke rising from that town. Shelling of Mountaintop flanking Highway 6held by Germans. Groups of American troops firing mortars from valley below. Shells exploding on German positions. Closeup of American gun crew loading and firing a 155mm long tom field gun. Soldiers holding their ears when gun fires. Bombs dropped from American warplane aircraft explode near roads in the valley. Glimpse from U.S. warplane flying overhead, of smoke rising from German positions in the Winter Line. Soldiers of the 168th Infantry Regiment firing a recoiless rifle from wooded area. Shells striking at base of mountain. Troops of the U.S. 137 Infantry Regiment advancing on San Vittore. view in the Italian town on 7 January, 1944, when street fighting has ended. American soldiers are seen mingling with the civilian inhabitants. German military equipment destroyed and burning during the American Winter Line offensive. Captured German soldiers being taken into custody, searched, and processed as prisoners of war.
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