Burial of dead soldiers at French 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion as honor squad of 2nd French Moroccan division arrives at cemetery in Italy. Commanding General and soldiers attend the burial Soldiers carry caskets and place them before the Chaplain. He offers prayers and men sprinkle holy water over them. Caskets moved to burial sites. A French flag flies in background.
Saint Patrick's Day being celebrated at Cassino front in Italy during World War II. General Alexander, who served with the Regiment in WW1, celebrates St. Patrick's Day with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards. He presents the Shamrock as well as gallantry awards to the Guardsmen who had fought at Anzio. Later they march past while General Alexander takes the salute. [?Allied troops pass in review before the Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower.] British Anzio rocket guns being fired.
An Allied invasion convoy in Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from a beach. Allied ships and landing crafts underway. A portable dock placed in position on a beachhead. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank) at the end of the dock. Soldiers get off the LST. Military equipment being unloaded from the LST. Trucks and other vehicles move across water and come ashore. DUKWs ( amphibious trucks) come onto the coast.
United States troops and equipment in Italy during World War II. United States soldiers carrying rifles march along an area. Smoke rises due to artillery fire. A railway track. A tank gun at the rail track fires. German prisoners march past a knocked out Italian armoured vehicle. Prisoners load into a truck.
United States troops and equipment in Italy during World War II. Two U.S. soldiers talk to each other. The soldiers relax on a field. Wounded soldiers being provided medical aid. Blood plasma being administered to an injured soldier. A wounded on a litter being carried across a field by soldiers. The soldiers carrying the litter move past debris. The litter being placed into an ambulance.
United States troops and equipment in Italy during World War II. U.S. Army tanks, equipment and bikes move across an area. Soldiers advance. United States and British soldiers meet. The soldiers shake hands with each other and interact. A cameraman takes pictures as U.S. Army General Mark Wayne Clark walks forward to greet General Lucian Truscott. The soldiers clap in the background.