Liberation of Rome by the Allies during World War II. Allied soldiers advance across a field and take German soldiers as prisoners. German prisoners being questioned by the soldiers. Allied soldiers walk down a street as they advance. A dead German soldier in a trench. A dead soldier in an armored car. A wounded native being loaded onto an ambulance.
Liberation of Rome by the Allies during World War II. Smoke rises from behind trees. Smoke rises from a tank on fire. Allied soldiers loaded onto tanks and trucks move past the burning tank. The Allied convoy advances along a road.
Punjabs of 8th Indian Division, British XIII attached to United States 5th Army advance through the valley and up the slope in a mock attack. Indian troops fire Bren guns, rifles and toss hand grenades. Native troops crawl forward. A medic gives aid to a man hit by shrapnel. Native troops fire British mortar and white phosphorus shells explode. (World War II period).
Bakers cook bread for Italian people during World War II, after the retreating German Army destroyed or removed all bread flour stores. Massive stacks of bags of flour in a warehouse. Workers unpile sacks of grain flour. Bakers empty the contents of the sacks in utensils for preparing bread. Bakers smile as they roll dough and bake bread. Pile of breads. Civilians standing outside the store of bread. Inside, a store keeper cuts bread and weighs it for each customer. They buy breads. At the home of an Italian family, civilian man, woman, and children eat bread and soup, and drink wine.
Allied troops break through the German Gustav line, during World War II. Allies troops fire guns, howitzers, mortars and machine guns on Nazi positions. French troops fire artillery and Sherman tanks fire. Explosions and smoke rise. French troops capture Castelforte, nicknamed 'little Cassino' on May 14. German prisoners are being taken as they surrender. Wounded Allied soldiers. Troops move through the ruins of captured Castleforte. British break through the Gustav line and on May 18 capture destroyed Monte Cassino. View of broken walls of the gutted Benedictine Abbey. Gutted buildings of town. Ruined building. Allied troops move ahead and advance. Bedraggled inhabitants return to their towns. An old woman eats bread. Planes in flight.
Troops in universal carriers (Bren carriers) advance through Italian countryside near Cassino. British soldiers passing at the side of a dirt road. Soldiers walking on foot. German POW soldiers are captured on the road. A captured German prisoner of war in full uniform. Allied soldiers escort and herd German prisoners over dirt roads. Faces of battle weary German prisoners of war.
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