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Scenes from the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, during World War II.

The Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy. Aerial view of San Vittore to the west. U.S. troops walk along a mountain road, as an Italian woman, holding a small child, watches from the roadside. Views of the town and Abbey of Monte Cassino, from mountainside outlook. Aerial view of Abbey on mountaintop. M7 Priest SP firing 105mm howitzer from camouflaged position. U.S. troops escorting Italian prisoners of war (POWs). American soldier carries several artillery shells up a hill. Several Sherman tanks of the 756th Tank Battalion are parked in a quarry below him. (The quarry is on the Cassino - Caira Rd north of Cassino.} Group of Italian civilians walk past a line of Sherman tanks parked along the empty riverbed of the Rapido River. U.S. soldier observes the Abbey of Monte Cassino through binoculars. Two American soldiers climb aboard an M4 Sherman tank mired down in the mud.(It has been identified as tank number C-14 belonging to the 3rd Platoon of C Company, 756th Tank Battalion.) Their Jeep is parked beside it. U.S. soldiers dug in along a roadside. One soldier plays solitaire with cards. Two soldiers place several propaganda leaflets into artillery shells.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046244
Ruins of Cassino town and Monte Cassino monastery after bombardment during the Battle of Monte cassino.

The Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. Ruins of Cassino town and Monte Cassino monastery. A wrecked M4 Sherman tank in view. Soldiers dig in field staked out with markers. Closeup of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in flight. Smoke rising from bombing or shelling. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046257
Allied bombing of Monte Cassino in WW II.

The Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy during World War 2. Film opens showing a Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk aircraft of USAAF 315th Fighter Squadron in flight over Monte Cassino, in clear weather. View from interior of an aircraft as it maneuvers, following another unidentified warplane. Scene shifts to explosions from allied bombing at Monte Cassino. Large explosions and heavy black smoke rises from the town, itself, and the base of the mountain. Camera view is from nearby mountain. The entire area becomes obscured by smoke. More views of bombs striking. Brief glimpse of North American B-25 Mitchell bomber from USAAF 340th Bomb Group, dropping bombs at Monte Cassino. View from a fighter plane cockpit as it dives down over smoke rising from bombing of the Montecassino Abbey. View of a P-40 in clear air (same as opening shot in this film). Glimpse of more bombing.

Date: 1944, May
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046256
Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy. Views of town and Abbey, as U.S. troops prepare to bombard German positions (WW2)

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.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046239
German forces engage Americans in battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, in World War II, and take American prisoners.

Map of Italy showing major cities. During a battlefield lull,in World War 2, in Italy, a German soldier reads a newpaper called the "Southern Front." View of Monte Cassino,Italy, with German troops taking cover amongst war debris. Fencing and signs identify minefields. German soldiers with their weapons, hidden in foliage. German soldier looks through binoculars as American forces bombard the town of Monte Cassino. German soldier, seeking cover, jumps over a stone wall. Smoke rises from the U.S. bombardment. German officers consult in a dugout. German soldiers move stealthily across a stream and through battle scarred landscape. Some take up positions and fire machine guns, rifles, and rifle grenades toward American lines. They advance from their trenches and come across fallen American soldiers on the field. They encounter one crawling, and several others from the U.S. 34th Division, whom they take prisoner. They remove their equipment and weapons, and smoke the American cigarettes. Behind the lines, a man in civilian clothes questions the captured American soldiers. A German soldier uses periscopic binoculars to spot targets for German artillerymen firing heavy weapons. Explosions seen in valley below as shells burst.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027677
Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy in World War II. Allied shelling reduces town to rubble.

Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, during World War Two. Views of distant snow-covered mountain and nearby town and Abbey of Monte Cassino. U.S gunners stack, load and fire artillery shells from heavy gun under camouflage net. View of the Abbey on the mountain. Smoke rises from shelling of German positions. Numerous Allied guns fire from camouflaged positions. A camouflaged Allied gun firing from a farmyard, next to the farmhouse. The town of Monte Cassino being reduced to rubble by shelling. The Abbey, on the mountain overlooking the town, was not attacked, and appears undamaged.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046269