81st Army Division troops fire at Japanese enemy at Peleliu Island, Palau. Wounded Marines assisted and put on stretcher. Tanks advance on Bloody Nose Ridge. Marine throws hand grenade towards Japanese cave entrance. Japanese soldiers emerge from caves. Nude Japanese soldiers surrender. Dead Japanese soldiers on ground. U.S. aircraft taking off from the airstrip won in the battle. Various rapid scenes of U.S. forces fighting in the Pacific, firing mortars, and storming a beach. (World War II period).
Film 'San Pietro' shows an American officer giving a brief speech regarding the Battle of San Pietro. View of Liri Valley in Italy with damaged trees and wrecked buildings. Damaged statue in the building. Destroyed Vineyards.
View of smoke rising from an open field in Italy. Trucks on muddy road. Troops of the 36th Infantry and 143rd Regiment advance and fire artillery. Soldier looks through binoculars. Explosion on ground. View of San Pietro and Liri Valley. Army trucks and jeep move on road. (World War II period).
Map shows San Pietro, Mount Lungo, Mount Sammucro. Explosions in the valley. 36th Infantry Division troops carry dead soldier on litter. Officer speaks over phone. Troops advance uphill. Soldiers move forward taking cover behind trees. Dead soldiers on ground. Explosion on ground. Dead bodies of soldiers placed on litter. (World War II period).
Map shows San Pietro, M. Lungo, M. Sammucro. 36th Infantry Division troops fire machine gun. U.S. Army soldiers advance uphill. Large explosions. Dead soldiers on ground. P-38 Lighting escorts fly in formation. German plane falls. General Clark examines a map. Officer speaks over phone. Troops fire 155 mm Howitzer and tanks at German enemy. Soldiers check time on their watches. (World War II period).
Elements of the U.S. 36th Infantry Division engaging in the Battle of San Pietro, during World War 2. Opening scene shows U.S. infantrymen of the 141st Infantry Regiment synchronizing their watches on H-Hour, D-Day, the 15th of December, 1943. Next they move forward 400 yards from their positions and are immediately pinned down by heavy artillery fire from German defenders. Soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 143rd Infantry Regiment advance 100 yards and hunker down at barbed wire barrier close to German defense line. They also come under heavy German artillery fire. American Sherman tanks enter the Town of San Pietro to find and destroy the German artillery interfering with the American advances. Views of U.S. tanks on the move. Narrator states that 16 tanks were dispatched along the road to San Pietro. Three reached the outskirts. German gunfire destroys two of these. Smoke rising from a struck tank. Views of pieces of destroyed tanks. Destroyed and abandoned American tanks. American infantrymen carrying a wounded on a litter past a knocked out Sherman tank. View of one (of four) tanks returning to the Regimental Bivouac area. Parachute flares illuminate the battlefield at night, where small American units succeed in penetrating German defenses, but are forced to move back again due to flanking German artillery and machine gun fire. Closeups of several wounded American infantry being moved on stretchers.
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