A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II. USAAF pilots prepare to leave for an air raid. The pilots get into the cockpit of P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft.
A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft in flight over an open sea. A castle on a cliff near a shore. Aerial view of the aircraft in a formation flight. A bomb under the wing of an aircraft. Aerial view of a bridge. The aircraft fly in a loose string formation. The aircraft peel off while in flight. An aircraft drops and a bomb being released. The aircraft pulls up. Another bomb drops and columns of smoke rise up.
U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.
View from rocks above as the USS LST -349, is seen being pounded by wind and wave against rocks off Ponza, Italy during World War 2. German prisoners of war are huddled together on her deck as American crew members work to rescue them. Prisoners are seen being assisted as they climb up the steep rocks from the ship. Some are ferried off in inflated rafts. Narrator says: “The ship begins to break in two, with some crew and 20 prisoners still aboard.” View of ship going down as those on the rocks struggle and rescue efforts continue. Narrator states: “The waves swept two Americans and six German prisoners off the cliffs to their deaths. In all, 14 died, 4 Americans, one British officer, and 9 German prisoners.” In the final scene, the ship has sunk out of sight and all survivors (unseen) have moved inland.
Operation Shingle amphibious landing in Italy during World War II. A medical team operates on a U.S. soldier on a beach, with two surgeons at work. Other medics or soldiers nearby observe the surgery. A wounded man on a small boat. A man wipes the hands of the wounded with cotton. Allied troops on the deck of a Landing Ship Tank and the wounded being taken aboard the LST. A close up of the wounded soldier.
Operation Shingle in Anzio Italy during World War II. Allied soldiers lay wire matting on a beach. Vehicles and tanks drive off a pontoon dock onto the beach. Troops on a tank. The tank being unloaded. Troops and equipment unloaded from a landing craft. The soldiers carry guns on their back. The vehicles are drive off the pontoon dock. Insignia of the United States on the vehicles. A jeep towed with a truck and taken ashore. A soldier eats food. Allied soldiers in a amphibious truck DUKW . Troops in DUKW enter the waters from a Landing Ship Tank and head for the shore.
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