World War II. U.S. Soldiers walk through a demolished Italian village. Other soldiers escort some Italian prisoners . They approach a pontoon bridge over which a U.S. military armored half-track vehicle is crossing toward them. The half-track passes by and the prisoners and their guards walk across the pontoon bridge.
Italian troops on the Isonzo front near the Alps during World War I. A field kitchen set up on the side of a mountain in the Julian Alps. Soldiers prepare a meal for the troops, in pots suspended on tree limbs over a series of fires. A mess Sergeant supervises the activities. cooks taste the soup.
Iron ore being offloaded from a ship, in large steel buckets, on to a flat car, at a port. A large crane dumping ore into a large open railroad container car, during World War 1. Coke being discharged after being processing from coal, at a steel plant. A traveling crane conveying a large container of raw material to the top of a furnace at a steel plant. Fire emitted from a crucible at a steel plant. An ingot being forged. Sequence shifts to views inside an Italian heavy artillery factory, where an annealing wrap is being lowered around a large gun barrel and heated with a gas fire. Huge gun barrels seen on machining floor. Machinists turning gun barrels on very large lathes. View through a gun barrel showing its spiral rifling. Machinists in a crowded shop where all machines are driven by leather belts. More views of gun barrels being turned on lathes. A man seated at the controls of a huge milling machine that revolves around the work piece, fastened to the machine bed.
U.S. military chiefs visit the Italian Front during World War II. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshal and U.S. Army General Mark Wayne Clark visit the Italian Front. General Marshal decorates French General Alphonse Juin and meets officers of U.S. 5th Army advancing northward.
The Battle of Monte Cassino.. B-26 medium bombers of the U.S. 12th Air Force bomb German positions at Monte Cassino, during World War II. Formations of B-26s are seen. Explosions of bombs occur in rapid succession as they strike the targets.
The Italian Campaign in World War II. On the Road to Rome. Allied soldiers guard Axis prisoners of war inside a makeshift stockade. Allied soldiers search the prisoners. The prisoners climb onto a military truck. A line of Sherman tanks advances along the road.
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