Activities of Italian soldiers in Italy during World War II. An Italian battleship at a harbor. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler aboard the battleship with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Hitler comes up on the deck and salutes and shakes hands with Mussolini. Italian ships and submarines. Two bombers in flight over the ships which are covered with smoke. Two old passenger vessels are used as targets. Aerial bombs burst around the ships. Italian troops parade. An ancient Roman structure in the background. Italian troops parade past a grandstand.
Training of United States troops in Italy during World War II. United States troops train with Italian Alpine Troops. Men march on a street. Mountains in the background. Houses along a side of the street. The men load supplies on mules. They advance in a mountainous terrain. A heavy mortar is swung across a chasm by a rope. A casualty is brought down the chasm by the rope. The troops watch the man.
A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II . Aerial views of a damaged bridge after an Allied air attack. Bomb craters on the ground. A U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft taxis along a field. Aircraft lined up at an airfield. Pilots in the cockpits of the aircraft as they clean canopies. Crew members work on P-47 aircraft.
A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II. USAAF pilots prepare to leave for an air raid. The pilots get into the cockpit of P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft.
A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft in flight over an open sea. A castle on a cliff near a shore. Aerial view of the aircraft in a formation flight. A bomb under the wing of an aircraft. Aerial view of a bridge. The aircraft fly in a loose string formation. The aircraft peel off while in flight. An aircraft drops and a bomb being released. The aircraft pulls up. Another bomb drops and columns of smoke rise up.
U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.