Views of the 56th Evacuation Hospital building in Avellino, Italy. Trucks, jeeps and other vehicles moving in the paved area in front of the building. Several receiving tents scattered in the garden area of the hospital. View of a portion of the wrecked hospital building. Two guards standing at the entrance of the hospital and the signboard of the 56th Evacuation Hospital is planted at the gate side. An ambulance enters the hospital,man opens the doors and others rush towards it and carry out the wounded one on the litters. Men carry the litter into the receiving tent. (World War II period).
U.S. Army 337th Engineers ("Keystone Engineers") near Avellino in the Campania region of Italy. View of a portion of a partially destroyed bridge over the Calore River. Soldiers working with various equipment and repairing the bridge. (World War II period).
Ships at the harbor in Paestum Italy. People moving on the beach at the shore. Army tents and clothing hanging outside the tents on the beach. A Dukw amphibious truck passes along the road near the beach. Truck moving on the road with people walking along roadsides
The American light cruiser, USS Savanah (CL-42) is seen streaming smoke as it cruises at high speed, after being hit by a German “Fritz X” radio-guided bomb during World War 2. Next Lieutenant General Mark Clark, Commanding General, Fifth Army, is seen descending a ladder from the USS Ancon (AGC-4), a headquarters and communications command ship, from which he had been observing the amphibious landings at Salerno, Italy. General Clark is helped aboard a waiting PT boat, where he joins several other officers on deck, with whom he converses.
Two C-47 planes landing at an airport in Paestum Italy. Several aircraft parked at the airfield. Soldiers unloading barracks bags and other equipment from the plane. Soldiers carry bags on their shoulder and place them on the ground. (World War II period).
View of several 105mm Howitzer guns scattered on a field near Salerno Italy. (The location has been identified as near the village of Bivio Santa Cecilla, west of the railroad and just east of highway no. 18.) Units of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division, 160th Field Artillery, load and fire phosphorus shells at the German-held area called the "Tobacco Factory" (a circular formation of brick buildings on the Sele River, about a mile west of Persano). (World War II period).
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