Liberation of Rome from German control during World War II. United States, British and Italian flags flutter in wind on a building in Rome, Italy. United States Army General Mark Wayne Clark, Major General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, General Lucian King Truscott and Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keys and French Army General Alphonse Pierre Juin. A military band plays during the welcoming ceremony of American troops. A large crowd of civilians gathered to cheer the troops. Buildings on either side of a street. A bell rings at Saint Peter's Basilica. Pope Pius XII addresses a large crowd in the Vatican City.
Medical aid given to wounded Allied soldiers at Monte Cassino in Italy during World War II. Wounded Allied soldiers are placed on litters and taken in tents. Medical personnel treat and provide medical aid to the wounded. Some wounded are taken in ambulances. A medical camp. Trees in the background.
United States Army advances on Monte Cassino in Italy during World War II. United States infantry proceeds along roads. U.S. Corpsmen treat Italian civilians. Civilians move on streets with their belongings and evacuate war affected area. Jeeps and equipment cross a swollen stream. Soldiers push a jeep stuck in the stream. Troops proceed through town. United States Army General Mark Wayne Clark confers with his aide and looks through binoculars. The soldiers fire artillery. Explosions occur. Mountains in the background.
United States 9th Air Force reactivated at England during World War II. Sign on door reads "Commanding Generals War Room". United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), Lieutenant General Lewis Hyde Brereton delivers a speech to the high ranking officers around a conference table. Maps placed on the wall in the background.
Lieutenant General George Patton, Commander of the U.S. Third Army, rides, standing up in a jeep, as he arrives in Coutances, France during World War II. He appears to say something as he passes some soldiers standing atop a Sherman tank. He then salutes in the direction of the camera. His jeep passes an M3 half-track carrying soldiers. Closeup of Patton as he passes them, and they smile. His jeep continues along the dirt road, past soldiers waving salutes from atop a Sherman M4A1 tank. View of a Sherman tank equipped with plow blades and camouflaged with foliage. Another Sherman tank (M4A3) with foliage camouflage. Closeup as it passes. Several more Sherman tanks followed by trucks and jeeps carrying infantrymen. Closeups as they pass. An M3 half-track, towing a field piece, is directed at an intersection by an MP (military policeman). More armor and trucks are seen including a Sherman tank equipped with a bulldozer blade, followed by an M3 Lee tank. A spire of the Église Saint-Pierre (Rue de l'Église, 50570 Marigny-le-Lozon, France) at Marigny-le-Lozon is seen in the background as vehicles pass it. A truck and a wheeled vehicle equipped with an A-Frame are parked at the side of the road. An M8 Light Armored Car passes. A jeep carrying medics, displaying red cross emblems, passes a truck towing a field piece.
Military police guard German prisoners of war in vicinity of Periers,France, during World War II. German prisoners rest along wall in courtyard of a building. Some prisoners sleep over ruins of buildings. Military police guard them. Prisoners being marched to trucks and loaded, packed tightly onto open trucks. French women on bicycles stop and make fun of the German prisoners Damaged buildings seen in the background. Sherman tank of 4th Armored Division drives past bomb-damaged church. Road sign points along Route 71 to next town (Coutances) and end of route (coastal city of Granville).
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