British soldiers landing in Salerno, Italy. Views of soldiers getting out from the LCI landing craft on the shores. Soldiers preparing beachheads while several army trucks moving nearby. Explosions in distance and soldiers run for cover of ditches. Semaphore signal man completes signals and takes cover. Soldiers place smoke pots to screen landing operations from German planes. Three landing crafts standing at the shores and soldiers and tanks emerge from them. Soldiers affix steel mats into sand using pegs, as bulldozer flattens ground. Soldiers board the vehicles and move ahead. (World War II period).
Various British military tanks and vehicles passing through the dusty narrow roads in Salerno Italy, after landing at beach head. Soldiers on the vehicles holding guns moving by the rough roads. (World War II period).
British foot soldiers with bags on shoulders and rifles walking towards the town in Salerno, Italy. A soldier eating an apple while others walking with guns. Several soldiers sitting on horse driven carts moving on the rough roads. A soldier fills his helmet with water and walks towards the horses. Horses drinking water from the helmet. (World War II period).
Near Salerno, Italy. British soldiers marching at the road sides. Soldiers with barracks bags on their back moving as a red cross trucks passes by them on the road. Army tanks and trucks moving on the narrow roadway and then leaving the roadway towards the forests. Two soldiers digging in a grove. Images at dusk of tanks and troops moving forward. Black smoke rising in the background. (World War II period).
British troops aid Federation of Malaya civilians in building a town. Huts under construction. A native man digging with a hoe. Women carrying supplies and children in baskets. The village being completed. Views of workers in the fields, feeding livestock including chickens and pigs. Sign over a store reads, "Layang Resettlement Cooperative Trading Co." Interior of the store as the shop keeper issues food to a woman beside a set of scales. Another building labeled "Dispensary" and inside where a doctor examines a child's leg as the child is held by a native woman. Children being instructed in a classroom. A man standing on a porch addressing a crowd of gathered civilian men. All the men raise their hands in response to a question. Armed Malayan men patrolling a perimeter fence against rebels from the Malayan Communist Party.
A Malayan Communist Party food cache, discovered by British and Malaysian troops in a wooden sided room beside a car garage. Supplies shown include medicines, Tea Pot brand sweetened condensed milk, Arrow Brand biscuits, Eveready batteries with the Nine Lives logo, and candles.
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