P-47 aircraft strafes transport truck on a road in Italy. Aircraft strafes road, large clouds of smoke rises. P-47 strafes transport truck on road and barges in canal. P-47 dives on road, strafing truck and motorcycles on road.
Activity at Alto Airbase, Corsica, during World War 2. Man with flight report standing by tent. Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert O. Wymond, Jr. of the 65th Fighter Squadron, standing on newly constructed floor, observes activity during construction of an Officers club. Two men are sawing wood. Others are nailing roof rafters in place. Flyers taking a break on raft supported by 55gallon drums, at beach area of Alto Air Base. They push one another into water and have fun on the raft.
Three P-47s of the U.S. Army Air Corps 66th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, raise dust as they take off from Alto Air Base in Corsica,France, during World War 2. Pilot seen in bubble canopy of late model P-47D, named "Halliburtons Hellion" of the 64th Fighter Squadron, during flight over water. Flights of P-47s in formation maneuvers. A Squadron of P-47s in formation overhead. One P-47 dives. View over P-47 in flight over hilly terrain in Italy. View from a P-47 flying very low over some people with a small truck, examining destroyed vehicles and equipment on the ground
Ruins at a port town of Italy during World War2. Bombed bridges as seen from a low flying plane. Wrecked train and cut rails. Wrecked bridge. Civilians in wrecked port town. Civilians in street.
Scenes of destruction in Italy, during World War 2. Partially obscured by foliage, a ship is seen, anchored in cove on Italian shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Wrecked buildings at the shore. A destroyer (probably British) seen briefly offshore . An old woman. Refugees at side of road near a Bailey bridge over the Garigliano river. Sign reads: "Kimble Bridge." Woman with baby. Vehicles pass over the bridge. Civilians walk in streets. Horse-drawn cart passes. A young boy takes the hand of a little girl, as they walk through rubble strewn street and he guides her as they skirt around a skeleton in the rubble. Military tent set up with mosquito netting. ( Note: the area shown is likely in the vicinity of Monturno, near where the Garigliano river empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea. As part of the heavily defended German Gustav Line, this area suffered great destruction during World War 2.)
Camera positions in aircraft P-47. Camera installed behind pilot, under the wing, in the wing, and the wheel well. Pilot's hand at instrument panel. Actor James Stewart reads a passage from a book about the film'Thunderbolt' depicting U.S. Air Forces operations flying P-47 aircraft, during World War II. A ship in a harbor. Ruined buildings at Italian port town. Italian civilians pass on street. Ruined buildings in town. Horse-drawn carts pass along road. Men and women in rubble. Face of an old lady. Refugees on Kimble Bridge. Children in rubble-strewn street. Skeleton of dead bombing victim in rubble. Clouds settled over mountains. A river and waterfall as seen from aircraft. Aerials of town on banks of river. Ruins of Italian towns. Wrecked train. Map highlights Corsica, Mediterranean Sea and Sicily. Island of Corsica. A family with animals being watered at a fountain. Several people posing outside the "Bar Napoleon."Corsican people on street. A graveyard containing German war dead. Man climbs control tower at Alto Air Base in Corsica. Crew at work on airfield. Unfuzed bombs are casually rolled off a moving trailer onto the ground. Man refuels P-47. A soldier sleeps in tent. Men in tents and outside get ready for mission in morning. Airman looks into mirror. Airmen wear uniform and comb hair. Men wash faces and shave. Men brush teeth. Also shows morning activities of a Captain. Aerials of Alto Air Base. Men on look out tower. A Lieutenant smokes pipe. Airmen enter tent and get instructions from officer. Men around chart.
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