U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War II. A man standing near a pipeline. The main gas line leading into the Volturno River. Pipelines stretching across the river. A soldier camouflaging a gas dump and small petroleum storage tanks.
U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War II. A gas dump. Trucks parked on a field. Hundreds of five gallon cans and a part of the main pipeline on the field. A jeep drives up to the gas dump. A soldier picks up a 5 gallon can of gas and fills the gas tank of the jeep.
U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War II. Trucks parked on a field. Soldiers load a supply truck with filled 5 gallon gas cans. A petroleum rack station along a road. An army supply truck and an army petroleum tank truck filling up. Mountains in the background. Other vehicles passing on a street nearby.
U.S. soldiers in Vairano, Italy during World War II. They feed Italian refugees. A mess tent. A sergeant of the 700th Ordnance Company talks to a group of children who are standing underneath the mess tent. He guides them into a line and the children are served the left overs. The children with containers get food. The remaining children in the line make a rush to get the last of the scraps. After the food is distributed, the soldiers gently push the children away.
USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) attack German targets in Africa and Italy during World War 2. An animation shows location of U.S. 8th Air Force in England and U.S. 12th Air Force in North Africa. P-40 Warhawk fighter planes in flight over enemy targets in North Africa. German equipment and troops are strafed. A P-51 Mustang fighter in flight, peels off and dives towards ground. German planes on ground. A German transport plane takes off. German troops in plane. German transports in flight. U.S. fighter planes take off. German transport being shot down. An animation shows location of 9th Air Force in North Africa. U.S. amphibious landings and infantry troops on the coast of Italy. P-40s in flight strafing German troops. U.S. troops fire mortars and in combat. A-24 Banshee fighter plane flies low over water. U.S. troops dig foxholes. They go through a barbed wire entanglement. U.S. B-26 Marauder bomber in flight. Bombs fall and explode on the ground. A-20 Havoc fighters strafe German railroads. An animation shows reshuffling of U.S. Air Forces, the 12th in Italy, the 9th in England and the 15th in Africa.
Aftermath of the Naples post office bombing in Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from the bombed out post office building. U.S. soldiers administer aid to the wounded. A soldier dresses the leg of a wounded man. Dead bodies lying in streets. A baby killed due to bombing. Dead amidst debris. A man sits on curb as he calls for help. His face covered with blood and his legs wrapped in blood soaked clothes.