The Battle of Monte Cassino in World War 2. U.S. troops shell the town. Smoke rises due to bombardment. Trees in the area. Mountains in the background. The monastery on Monte Cassino in view. U.S. Soldiers load and fire mortars. A soldier carries artillery shells up a hill. Several U.S. Sherman tanks are parked behind him. Another maneuvers into the parking area. Smoke rises from shells striking the town.
Allied soldiers advance during the Italian Campaign of World War Two. View of an Italian town. Wrecked German artillery pieces. U.S. crew climbs aboard M8 Personnel Carrier. Allied troops reconnoitering along a roadside. The drop to the ground in response to gunfire. Smashed German tanks. Allied soldiers climb on and in the tanks, looking for Germans. Allied troops cautiously explore woods and abandoned German bunkers. An Allied infantry patrol passes destroyed German armor and artillery pieces. Two American soldiers display a huge Nazi flag that they then stomp upon. Italian women and children walk through the rubble of their town and fetch water in a bucket. A mother washes her childs face. Another mother feeds her infant. Italian civilians gather around a picnic table in shade of a tree and pose for the camera.
British Medical corpsmen attend to German prisoners who survived LST (Landing Ship, Tank) foundering on Italian coast. (World War II period).
Pre-invasion at start of the Italian Campaign. Group of pilots assigned to piper cub airplanes pose on deck of a Landing Ship Tank (LST) in World War 2. Top row, first two shown from left are Pilots Dutch Shultz and Fred Boucher. Pilot, Lieutenant Dutch Schultz, poses in cockpit of his airplane. Boucher's Piper L-4, "Sad Sack 3" with Buzz letters BE is seen behind. Cub planes parked on deck of the LST. ( Among those seen are Cub planes with Buzz letters BD and BB.) Crewmen ease Cub BE down a steel ramp. View of Cub airplanes parked on both sides of improvised flight deck on the LST.
Pre-invasion loading and maneuvers of Piper Cub aircraft in Worls War 2. Man revs up engine of cub plane aboard LST. First cub plane takes off from LST and circles ship.
Pre-invasion maneuvers of air. Cub plane takes off from runway of LST and circles ship. Boat underway at sea. Second Cub plane takes off from LST. Men look at plane as it takes off.
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