Battle of Salerno, in Italy. British Eighth Army soldiers fire rifles at the enemy. One soldier loads mortars while others fire mortar rounds on the targets. Explosions and smoke rises from the buildings and street. Smoke forming clouds over buildings in the streets. Burning vehicles parked in front of the buildings. (World War II period).
Single file formation of U.S. Army 7th infantry, 3rd division enters and occupies town of Avellino Italy. U.S. soldiers carrying rifles moving through the streets in squad formation. Some vehicles seen moving in background. Soldiers moving and inspecting the situation among rubble and barbed wire entanglements in the city streets. Several civilians are seen moving in the background. (World War II period).
First Meeting between British 8th Army and the American 5th Army, 35 miles south of Salerno, on a high mountain road near Agropoli, during World War 2. PR officer from the London Irish Army and War Correspondents meet the U.S. Army's 3rd platoon, 36th Division Recon Cavalry troops. The U.S. Army soldiers wait in jeeps at a bend in the road. When the British group arrives they stop and talk together. Then views of a company of the 504 Abn Infantry on the Via Roma entering Albanella Italy. A half-track personnel carrier is seen followed by several M10 Tank destroyers. from Company C of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, driving through town on September 14th, 1943. Views of M4 Sherman tanks on the roads of Albanella. (Note: The location where Infantry and tank views was taken has been identified as the intersection of Via Piazzie Chiesa and Via Roma at coordinates: 40 degrees 28' 41.29"N/15 degrees 06' 52.24"E.)
U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower disembarks from a beach landing craft and gets into a Jeep on the beach with Admiral Hewitt during World War II. The Jeep is driven away. They arrive at the 5th Army headquarters area and meet with Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther for strategy discussions. Military photographers and other troops are gathered around the commanders as they greet.
Lieutenant General George S. Patton addresses troops from an outdoor stage and then awards Silver Stars for gallantry to members of the U.S. Army 39th Infantry, 9th Division, in Capo Playa, near Cefalu, Italy. Patton awards the medals and then the soldiers form into groups from their respective home states, which include New Jersey, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. The army band is seen standing near the soldiers. The soldiers parade in front of the officers. Awarded soldiers take off their helmets and pose for photographers. Close-ups of soldiers with medals while flags from the honor guard wave in background. (World War 2. WWII. WW2.)
British soldiers on tank retriever moving through desert area in North Africa. A soldier standing on the retriever moving through desert followed with a jeep. The tank stops and crewmen start winching up a damaged British tank as another men standing on tank whistles and signals with hands. The damaged British tank is loaded on the retriever. Crewmen take protection as incoming ground and artillery fire begins. As firing stops men resume to load tank. Two soldiers winch the crew in turns as another crewman observes the whole process. Rear part of the tank starts to close and crewmen with different devices work near the wheels. (World War II period).
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