From film on the Battle of San Pietro during World War 2. 142nd Infantry Regiment advances, reach the summit of Mt Lungo and enter San Pietro in Italy. Explosions on hill and active battle scenes with U.S. Army troops taking cover and firing rifles. U.S. Army soldiers check damaged buildings for enemy. Soldiers come out of cave entrance. Dead and wounded soldiers are evacuated. Dead U.S. soldiers are buried in graves dug by both soldiers and civilians. Name plates and dog tags are nailed to grave markers. U.S. Army troops relaxing, smoking, talking, and smiling during a break in the action.
321st bomb group bombs road junction Castelnovo in Italy. Bomb group in flight. Aerial view of road junction Castelnovo. Bomb explosions over target. American bomber in flight. (World War II period).
Slate states: “Dust causes crash. P-38 plows into water truck. Pilot escapes. Two killed.” Members of the U.S. Army 817th Engineers Battalion, who have been building an emergency airfield , near Salerno, Italy, during World War 2, respond when the first P-38 airplane to land at the field, crashes into a water truck at the side of the dirt runway. Smoke rises from the crash scene. Camera focuses on the burning P-38 aircraft and the water truck. Soldiers use improvised slings to move the bodies of two victims away from the crash site. Meanwhile, other P-38 aircraft continue to land at the field. Smoke continues to billow from the burning P-38 airplane.
Large number of Italian prisoners of war assembled in an open field in Italy, after the battle of Caporetto in World War 1. Austro-Hungarian soldiers in long caravan of horse-drawn wagons, advancing along snow-covered road. Damaged and destroyed Italian artillery and equipment lining the sides of road. Austrian troops rummage through abandoned Italian war materiel. Abandoned equipment, including a huge mortar. Another view of the Italian prisoners of war in the outdoor holding area. Italian prisoners walking across a railroad track. Some wave their helmets at the photographer. Wounded Austrian soldier being tended on the ground as medic wraps his entire lower body and legs in bandages. Ambulatory wounded Austro-Hungarian troops assembling to be transported. Tall snowy mountains of the Alps in background. Austrian soldiers rummaging through abandoned Italian war materiel. Austrian infantry, accompanied by trucks, advancing along a snow-covered mountain road.
Austro-Hungarian troops advancing in Italy, after the battle of Caporetto, in the Julian Alps, in World War 1. Austrian soldiers escort large group of Italian prisoners of war toward the rear, as Austro-Hungarian troops advance on the other side of the road. Soldiers walk along with loaded pack animals and horse-drawn wagons. Sign on road corner pointing to "Serpenizza" (Italian for Srpenica Slovenia) Remains of smoldering Italian war materiel at side of road. Austrian troops at Italian-Austrian border area, with snow covered mountains of the Alps in background.
Destruction due to avalanches in Northern Italy. Snow covered buildings and huts. People remove snow with spades. People remove snow from a damaged house. Heavy snow on the ground and houses. People struggle to clear it and search for avalanche survivors. From a March 12, 1959 newsreel featuring events from 25 years earlier.
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