Naples Italy during World War II. 8" Howitzer under cover of trees, firing at a target. U.S. Army soldiers talk on field radio phone and receive directions from a liaison plane. Soldier read maps and plot coordinates for firing of howitzer. American soldiers look through sights of the Howitzer and adjust controls. View through howitzer barrel shows rifling inside. View of liaison planes parked in a field.
World War II Allied convoy underway at sea. Allied forces amphibious landing at Salerno at night, in Italy. Darkness illuminated by flashes of gunfire. Navy guns blast enemy positions and German planes. German warplanes bombing and strafing Allied ships. Several Allied ships burning. Helmsman on Allied landing craft looks back at German plane falling into sea, when he takes cover away from the tiller. General Mark Clark rides to shore in a landing craft along with his troops. 5th Army troops dig in furiously on the beachhead and dive into their foxholes as they come under German firing. British General Harold Alexander, commander of Allied 15th Army Group confers with U.S. General Mark Clark. Nurses arrive by C-47 aircraft and treat wounded soldiers. Views of destroyed German armor and artillery including German Pz.IV tank from 16th Panzer Division. Nurses and medics load Allied wounded onto landing craft for evacuation. German prisoners of war walk under armed escort and dig graves to bury their dead. Allied forces move forward on battlefront. Several Allied C-47 transport planes are seen flying low over the area.
Military Museum at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Italy. Tower of the Castello Sforzesco. Portraits of Italian Army personnel, uniforms, badges, maps and equipment exhibited inside the military museum. Visitors look at photographs inside the museum. They look at an album with pictures of various officers. Newspaper clippings hung on wall.
Allied soldiers at 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Caiazzo, Italy during World War II. Doctors take an X-ray of an injured Allied soldier. After the X-ray medics carry the wounded on a stretcher.
Allied soldiers at 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Caiazzo, Italy during World War II. Cooks prepare food at 93rd hospital kitchen. Food served in plates. An orderly carries the plates to the tent. An injured Allied soldier eats the food as he sits in his cot.
Allied soldiers at 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Caiazzo, Italy during World War II. A ward orderly bathe a puppy in a tub as recuperating Allied soldiers look on. Soldiers with bandages on their wounds. Signs read 'Hospital zone drive slowly, quiet' 'Hospital 93rd EH information registrar'.