The Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, during WWII. Bombing of German positions below and around the Abbey of Monte Cassino, as viewed from nearby mountain vantage point. Succession of bombs bursting on the German positions. U.S. soldiers sort artillery shells in a munitions dump.
The Battle of Monte Cassino .Aerial views of the town and Abbey of Monte Cassino, in Italy, in early stage of the battle before any significant damage had been done to them.
The Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. Bombardment on the target area of Monte Cassino. Smoke rises due to the same. Allied soldiers fire artillery from hide outs. (World War II period).
U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.
Allied airplanes bomb Italy during World War II. The Allied bombers in flight over the target area. High altitude view of the target area. Smoke arises from explosion as the airplanes drop bombs over the area. British troops advance towards Cassino and Americans towards Anzio. Bomb damaged buildings and area in Cassino. Allied aid to the Italian refugees. German prisoners of war being marched towards the stockade.
Allied drive towards Rome after the capture of Monte Casino during the end of World War II. Ruins of Cassino crushed by Allied war machines. Artillery shelled walls of Monte Cassino. Enemy mines and booby traps. Commanding officer of British, American and French army including British Army Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark and Juin et al plan for the drive on Rome. Army tanks drive. Smoke rises. German prisoners are being taken.
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