British soldiers landing in Salerno, Italy. Views of soldiers getting out from the LCI landing craft on the shores. Soldiers preparing beachheads while several army trucks moving nearby. Explosions in distance and soldiers run for cover of ditches. Semaphore signal man completes signals and takes cover. Soldiers place smoke pots to screen landing operations from German planes. Three landing crafts standing at the shores and soldiers and tanks emerge from them. Soldiers affix steel mats into sand using pegs, as bulldozer flattens ground. Soldiers board the vehicles and move ahead. (World War II period).
Various British military tanks and vehicles passing through the dusty narrow roads in Salerno Italy, after landing at beach head. Soldiers on the vehicles holding guns moving by the rough roads. (World War II period).
British foot soldiers with bags on shoulders and rifles walking towards the town in Salerno, Italy. A soldier eating an apple while others walking with guns. Several soldiers sitting on horse driven carts moving on the rough roads. A soldier fills his helmet with water and walks towards the horses. Horses drinking water from the helmet. (World War II period).
Near Salerno, Italy. British soldiers marching at the road sides. Soldiers with barracks bags on their back moving as a red cross trucks passes by them on the road. Army tanks and trucks moving on the narrow roadway and then leaving the roadway towards the forests. Two soldiers digging in a grove. Images at dusk of tanks and troops moving forward. Black smoke rising in the background. (World War II period).
View of guns mounted on an allied destroyer firing at targets in Salerno,Italy. Views of mountainous coastline in background while several ships and landing crafts moving near the beach including one carrying aircraft on a special platform. Smoke rising near the shore. Soldier looking through binoculars on the approaching warship. Soldiers standing near the mounted gun on the warship and looking towards the shore. Repeated scenes of landing crafts moving towards shore. (World War II period).
View of covered bodies lying on stretchers on the beach in Salerno, Italy. Soldiers loading bed rolls on Dukw amphibious vehicles. An American P-40 aircraft downed at the shallow waters off shore. View of landing crafts approaching shore. Convoy of landing crafts moving towards beach. Ships moving in sea, mountainous coasts in the background. (World War II period).