USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) attack German targets in Africa and Italy during World War 2. An animation shows location of U.S. 8th Air Force in England and U.S. 12th Air Force in North Africa. P-40 Warhawk fighter planes in flight over enemy targets in North Africa. German equipment and troops are strafed. A P-51 Mustang fighter in flight, peels off and dives towards ground. German planes on ground. A German transport plane takes off. German troops in plane. German transports in flight. U.S. fighter planes take off. German transport being shot down. An animation shows location of 9th Air Force in North Africa. U.S. amphibious landings and infantry troops on the coast of Italy. P-40s in flight strafing German troops. U.S. troops fire mortars and in combat. A-24 Banshee fighter plane flies low over water. U.S. troops dig foxholes. They go through a barbed wire entanglement. U.S. B-26 Marauder bomber in flight. Bombs fall and explode on the ground. A-20 Havoc fighters strafe German railroads. An animation shows reshuffling of U.S. Air Forces, the 12th in Italy, the 9th in England and the 15th in Africa.
The fountain of Neptune (Fontana del Nettuno) in Messina (Via G. Garibaldi, 98122 Messina ME, Italy) shows damage after the Allied Invasion of Sicily during World War 2. Messina’s waterfront, the Via Vittorio Emanuele II, with damaged structures and rubble strewn all over. The Comune di Messina-Palazzo Zanco at Via S. Camillo, 110, 98122 Messina ME with the word “Vincere” (“win” in Italian) on the side of the building, with the war memorial Monumento ai Caduti (Via Consolato del Mare, 25, 98122 Messina ME, Italy) seen on the left. View from the intersection of Via Antonio Laudamo and Via G. Garibaldi shows Via Antonio Laudamo strewn with rubble, with The Church of Christ the King (Viale Principe Umberto, 93, 98122 Messina ME, Italy ) in the background with a sign “DUCE” (title of Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini). Closer view of The Church of Christ the King and the sign “DUCE”. A street in Messina with wrecked vehicles. View of the Strait of Messina, with smoke in the horizon.
Units of the Italian fleet in Taranto harbor, Italy after the Italians surrender to the Allies during World War II. Italian cruisers and other ships in the harbor area. The bow of a ship underway. Men on the deck of the ship. The bridge of a ship underway.
Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of Troina in 1943, Sicily. Boats and ships at a harbor. Soldiers load luggage on the ships. Ships underway at sea. Soldiers in jeeps on the street. Houses along the sides of the street. High altitude view of the houses and the city. Map shows the battlefields of the 1st Infantry. Soldiers fire on the mountains of Troina. An officer talks on phone. Wrecked houses after the war.
5th army lands and evacuate the wounded under enemy fire at gulf of Salerno in Italy. Ships at the gulf of Salerno, Italy. Bomb group in flight above gulf. Bombs exploded over ships. Explosions and smoke rising from ship. Wounded people in ship. A man climbs on truck. Army troop evacuate the wounded. Explosions on ship. U.S. army trucks driven to pier. Army unit at beach. Bomb explosions over ship. Smoke rising from ship. Flames of fire on ship. (World War II period).
U.S. Army 817th Army engineers build airfield within 24 hours near Salerno, Italy, in World War II. Members of the U.S. Army 817th Engineers Battalion are seen employing construction equipment to create a new emergency airfield near Salerno, Italy, during World War 2. A bulldozer uproots trees separating a tomato patch from a wheat field so both can be combined to create a larger space for an emergency airfield. A road grader passes a soldier seated in a piece of parked construction equipment, as it levels the ground. The operator in the parked equipment takes a drink from his canteen. Next, soldiers are seen wielding picks, and other hand tools to untangle clumps of earth and roots. Camera shows them next, working at the edge of the large cleared earthen airfield. They pause to wave to a P-38 lightning aircraft that has just landed at the new field. The P-38 passes on its landing roll, raising a cloud of dust. (Note: Moments after the end of the clip, this, first to land, P-38 had a fatal collision with a water truck, concealed in dust at the side of the runway.
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