Beachhead activities show LC (Landing Craft) at Sicily beach. Small group of German prisoners. Trucks and other vehicles drive from LST (Landing Ship, Tank) onto pontoon causeway. Half-tracks exit LST and drive along pontoon causeway to shore. LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) underway. (World War II period).
Funeral service for Arnoldo, brother of Italian Premier Benito Mussolini. Coffin carried out of the building while the huge crowd gathers up for the funeral ceremony. Coffin of Arnoldo is carried by men moving on streets of Forli. Coffin is escorted by Benito Mussolini. Crowd lined up. Procession heads for rural cemetery. Men in procession hold flags.
U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower disembarks from a beach landing craft and gets into a Jeep on the beach with Admiral Hewitt during World War II. The Jeep is driven away. They arrive at the 5th Army headquarters area and meet with Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther for strategy discussions. Military photographers and other troops are gathered around the commanders as they greet.
View of B-25 bombers flying towards Colletta and bombing the roadways there to stop the advance of the German 16th Panzer division toward allied landing parties on the Salerno beach. Bombers dropping bombs over targets below. Destroyed airstrip areas and smoke rising from the targets below. (World War II period).
World War Two scenes involving U.S. General George S Patton,Jr. The conquest of Sicily in World War 2. Soldiers of the 7th U.S. Army fire artillery. Explosions in the distance. General Patton with a group of soldiers. American troops in the streets of Sicily. The civilians cheer. Patton waves as a military vehicle passes by. Military vehicles and jeeps pass on the streets. Patton with other officers. American soldiers walk past rubble in the street of Sicily. Troops march. Patton with other soldiers behind a donkey cart. General Eisenhower salutes as he reviews the troops. Patton with General Eisenhower. Patton addresses new troops in Great Britain. Patton with soldiers. Soldiers practice fighting. (Narrated by actor Ronald Reagan.)
On the island of Sardinia, men walking and driving sheep across the mountains of swiftly melting snow which is turning into raging floods. A white lamb follows other sheep in the snow. Lamb with its mother. View of crane in water. Houses and lakes in the island shown. Mudslides destroying houses. Italian man operates a front-end loader to scoop mud. Italian men arrange stones to create a barrier. Bulldozer clears mud in Italian town. House facade falls down.
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