Animated map shows areas of targeting, in Rome environs, by U.S. warplanes during Italian campaign in World War 2. Gun camera footage from a U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 aircraft captures strafing from altitude of feet, of loaded Italian transport vehicles on Italian highway 6, connecting Rome and Cassino. Another map highlights a bridge at Civita Castellana. Gun camera shows it being strafed from only 300 ft. altitude, and attacked with 500 pound bombs. Similar attack is highlighted at a road near Frosinone, Southeast of Rome, where A-36 fighter bombers strafe motor transports and bomb the road. Similar footage is shown for targets being attacked at: Monte Si Savino; Sezze; Terracina; Castro de Volsci. Views from one A-36 camera when pilot flies low in a valley looking for targets of opportunity. He strafes vehicles on a road and pulls up sharply to avoid a mountain and then continues attack on the other side.
U.S. troops fire mortar into town of Monte Cassino from mountainside. U.S. armored vehicle on narrow mountain road. Aerial views of undamaged Abbey atop Monte Cassino during World War II. Group of Italian prisoners of war stand by rural house. One has sling on his arm. Ruins of village. U.S. Troops move on mountainside road. Soldiers sorting out artillery shells in a huge munitions dump.Aerial view of Monte Cassino town. U.S. soldier escorts Italian prisoners of war. Sherman tanks and their crews rest in the quarry north of Cassino. Shells bursting in the town.
Scenes from an airplane flying over the Abbey of Monte Cassino and the nearby town.There is no evidence of combat or significant damage until the end of the clip when smoke is seen rising from some sort of bombardment. (World War II period).
American infantry walking along a rocky mountain road, carrying their individual bedrolls. A local woman holding a small child, watches as they pass. Scenes of devastation near a body of water. Snow-covered mountains are visible in the background. Camera pans across the waterfront, showing debris everywhere. Destroyed structures. Some are simple dwellings. Others are remains of reinforced concrete structures. Two U.S. soldiers explore the top of a half submerged Sherman tank, at water’s edge. Their jeep is parked nearby. Another Sherman tank sits above water level, on a sand bar. Thousands of rounds of spent artillery shells are stacked, casually, in a field and partway up a hill. American soldiers gather informally,at side of a hill as one (likely an Army Chaplain) reads from a bible, as he leans over a fallen soldier, partially covered with a tarpaulin. A soldier looks at the Abbey of Monte Cassino through binoculars. Views of the town from overlooking mountain. Smoke rising from the castle and town as artillery shells strike. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
View of the town of San Vittore west of Cassino, as seen from a nearby mountain. American soldier queries a group of German prisoners of war. They respond by show of hands. U.S. Soldiers marching German POWs along a road. Italian civilians walk past a line of U.S. Sherman tanks of 756th Tank Battalion parked along the side of a road. U.S. troops relaxing on and about a parked Sherman tank. U.S. troops relaxing in their trenches along a roadside. Italian civilians wash clothes in an outdoor communal laundry, as U.S. troops walk past in the background.
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.
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