View of B-25 bombers flying towards Colletta and bombing the roadways there to stop the advance of the German 16th Panzer division toward allied landing parties on the Salerno beach. Bombers dropping bombs over targets below. Destroyed airstrip areas and smoke rising from the targets below. (World War II period).
Paestum,Italy during Operation Avalanche in World War 2. US. Army infantry soldiers board LCI landing crafts and move away from beach. Three barrage balloons flying above the ships. U.S. soldiers in the ship heading towards the sea. Ship passes by the submarine nets and advances out to sea.
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).
An old man drinking from a can in a rowboat alongside a U.S. naval destroyer off Salerno,Italy. The old man wipes off his face with a handkerchief and then boards the warship. Several American soldiers gather around the old man smiling. Another old man climbs up from the small boat. The old man stands in the boat while the boat is lowered to the sea and then moves toward the beach. (World War II period).
Salerno, Italy. Allied soldiers packed in small landing crafts moving toward beach. Convoy of ships moving in the water. Smoke from a distant ship. Shells break near landing craft underway. (World War II period).
U.S. Coast Guard sailors in England along with women soldiers in uniform, during liberty ashore. They play a game of lawn bowling and the look at swans in a lake. Scenes of sailors loading boxes of rations onto ships. Several soldiers lie, chat, read books and walk on the deck area of landing crafts. An officer looks through a telescope mounted on the ship towards the carrier ships heading towards the beach. Troops loading LCVP crafts and being ferried out to waiting transports. LCI crafts loaded with Infantry soldiers, engineers, and medical corpsmen waiting to move out. Actor dramatization of troops hearing the news that the real invasion is to begin. (World War II period).
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