Ships at the harbor in Paestum Italy. People moving on the beach at the shore. Army tents and clothing hanging outside the tents on the beach. A Dukw amphibious truck passes along the road near the beach. Truck moving on the road with people walking along roadsides
U.S. Army troops camped among the ruins of the ancient Greek Temple of Hera II (erroneously called the Temple of Neptune) near Paestum, Province of Salerno, Italy during World War II. Clothing of U.S. Army soldiers hanging to dry between pillars of the temple. A soldier smoking a cigarette beside a column of the Second Temple of Hera (Via Magna Graecia, 917, 84047 Capaccio SA, Italy). Views of a bombed out and destroyed rail yard and trains near Paestum Italy. Army trucks including personnel carriers and other vehicles moving on a road. Vehicles cross the narrow bridge at Triflisco over the Volturno River, built by the 343rd Engineers.
Santa Maria, Italy. 3rd Ranger Battalion soldiers moving cautiously through the streets. Soldiers carrying rifles and mortars. Soldiers running towards the ditches in order to take cover and hide themselves. Soldier looks through binoculars and signals to others. Soldiers running and taking cover, prone in places through orchards. Soldiers set up 60mm mortar on the ground. Several soldiers lying in prone positions and firing from rifles. (World War II period).
The American light cruiser, USS Savanah (CL-42) is seen streaming smoke as it cruises at high speed, after being hit by a German “Fritz X” radio-guided bomb during World War 2. Next Lieutenant General Mark Clark, Commanding General, Fifth Army, is seen descending a ladder from the USS Ancon (AGC-4), a headquarters and communications command ship, from which he had been observing the amphibious landings at Salerno, Italy. General Clark is helped aboard a waiting PT boat, where he joins several other officers on deck, with whom he converses.
Two C-47 planes landing at an airport in Paestum Italy. Several aircraft parked at the airfield. Soldiers unloading barracks bags and other equipment from the plane. Soldiers carry bags on their shoulder and place them on the ground. (World War II period).
View of several 105mm Howitzer guns scattered on a field near Salerno Italy. (The location has been identified as near the village of Bivio Santa Cecilla, west of the railroad and just east of highway no. 18.) Units of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division, 160th Field Artillery, load and fire phosphorus shells at the German-held area called the "Tobacco Factory" (a circular formation of brick buildings on the Sele River, about a mile west of Persano). (World War II period).
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