The Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. Allied gun crews, under camouflage nets, fire heavy artillery against German positions at Monte Cassino. Views of the ruined town. A Sherman tank parked inside a partially destroyed building. A U.S. soldier picks through rubble in a gutted building.
Allied troops at the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy during World War II. Ruins of a building and rubble. A tank parked inside the destroyed building. A soldier gets onto the tank. Bombardment in the target area. Smoke rises due to the same. Destroyed houses in Cassino town. People flee from the place with their luggage. They hold their luggage and some luggage loaded on donkeys.
Allied armies break the Gustav Line at Monte Cassino in Italy during World War II. Thick clouds form from Allied bombing at Monte Cassino and the surrounding area. A camouflaged tank covered in foliage moving on a field. British soldiers duck and cover their ears after loading mortar. Soldiers covering their ears while firing mortar. Closer view of a camouflaged tank moving.
Destroyed buildings and ruins in Cassino during the Battle of Monte Cassino. German soldiers look through binoculars. Some sit and talk. Soldiers crawl and take cover among the ruins as Allied planes attack. Allied planes drop bombs on the town. Soldiers take cover and fire antiaircraft guns. Smoke from explosions. An Allied plane is hit and falls. Soldiers scout from the ruins. Machine guns fired. Soldiers with explosives in bunkers. A torn Nazi flag with the Swastika. (World War II period).
Town of Mignano wrecked by shellfire in Italy during World War 2. Destroyed railway tracks. Artillery fired at Mountain of Cassino that is held by Germans. Smoke rises from fire. Collapsed building. African American soldiers at work in rubble searching for casualties. African American soldiers warm themselves by a small fire. One African American lights a cigarette using a burning piece of wood from a fire, and he smokes the cigarette.
Allied troops break through the German Gustav line, during World War II. Allies troops fire guns, howitzers, mortars and machine guns on Nazi positions. French troops fire artillery and Sherman tanks fire. Explosions and smoke rise. French troops capture Castelforte, nicknamed 'little Cassino' on May 14. German prisoners are being taken as they surrender. Wounded Allied soldiers. Troops move through the ruins of captured Castleforte. British break through the Gustav line and on May 18 capture destroyed Monte Cassino. View of broken walls of the gutted Benedictine Abbey. Gutted buildings of town. Ruined building. Allied troops move ahead and advance. Bedraggled inhabitants return to their towns. An old woman eats bread. Planes in flight.
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