From film on the Battle of San Pietro during World War 2. 142nd Infantry Regiment advances, reach the summit of Mt Lungo and enter San Pietro in Italy. Explosions on hill and active battle scenes with U.S. Army troops taking cover and firing rifles. U.S. Army soldiers check damaged buildings for enemy. Soldiers come out of cave entrance. Dead and wounded soldiers are evacuated. Dead U.S. soldiers are buried in graves dug by both soldiers and civilians. Name plates and dog tags are nailed to grave markers. U.S. Army troops relaxing, smoking, talking, and smiling during a break in the action.
United States prisoners released on Luzon, in the Philippines during World War 2. Signal Corps photographer takes picture of Major Emil P Reed of Brownsville, Texas, Regimental Surgeon of 26th Cavalry on Bataan. Soldiers and released prisoners around 92nd Evacuation Hospital area. Major Reed talks to soldiers. One armed released prisoner soldier Afred Jolly of San Francisco walks.
Soldiers of the U.S. 34th Infantry Division, 442nd Infantry Regiment (comprising soldiers of Japanese ancestry) march single file along a dirt road in Italy, during the Rome-Arno campaign of World War 2. The road is tree-lined and several hay stacks and a large building are seen close to the road. Three of the soldiers take up positions in deep grass. One is armed with a Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun, and another holds a heavier weapon. The troops take a break in shade of the trees along the road. Closeup of one soldier. Several others converse in a group. One soldier "hits the dirt" in a roadside ditch and then crawls while hidden and fires across the road. He jumps back into deeper foliage.
U.S. soldiers of Japanese ancestry, in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, 34th Division, are seen in a wooded area of Italy, during World War 2. A patrol party receives instructions. Staged for the camera, the Soldiers scout through the woods in search of enemy snipers near Pisa. Soldiers on the alert. Soldiers aim their rifles, run through woods, take cover, and get up and advance.
U.S. corpsmen at 3rd Battalion Aid station attend to a wounded soldier of the 34th Infantry Division's 442nd Regimental Combat Team (comprising U.S. soldiers of Japanese ancestry) in the Italian Rome-Arno Campaign during World War 2. They carry him from a jeep into a field hospital, where they check an information tag on his uniform. View of his bandaged left foot. Medics attend another wounded solder and bandage his wrist before moving him on his stretcher into the building. Two corpsmen lift a wounded soldier, in sitting position, into a field ambulance, which then drives away. (Note: the opening slate refers to Lt. Frank Morang, 196th Signal Photo Company, who reportedly received a field commission for his outstanding work in the North African, Sicilian and Italian Campaigns.)
Carpenters of the 302nd Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) at work constructing shipping containers in the Philippines, during World War 2. One uses a power circular saw. View of a fan placed in a new wooden container. A native being instructed by a Seabee. Stacks of finished containers.
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