Map shows San Pietro, M. Lungo, M. Sammucro. 36th Infantry Division troops fire machine gun. U.S. Army soldiers advance uphill. Large explosions. Dead soldiers on ground. P-38 Lighting escorts fly in formation. German plane falls. General Clark examines a map. Officer speaks over phone. Troops fire 155 mm Howitzer and tanks at German enemy. Soldiers check time on their watches. (World War II period).
Italian propaganda film displaying prowess of Italian infantry against tanks, in live fire exercise, during World War 2. Camouflaged Italian troops in a field. Italian soldier emerges out of foxhole. View of narrow deep foxhole that can allow tank to pass overhead. Tanks approach the area. Camouflaged Italian troops throw hand grenades at tanks, from their foxholes. Explosions on sides of tanks. Italian soldier jumps on a tank and sabotages it from outside. The tanks's tread becomes separated. Tanks move through mined fields. Italian troops run towards tanks throwing hand grenades.
Benito Mussolini head of the Italian Social Republic, meets with his cabinet during World War II. Among notables attending the cabinet meeting, are Defense Minister Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and Cabinet vice-chairman, Francesco Maria Barracu who confer before the meeting and with Mussolini during the meeting. Change of scene to Marshal Graziani being greeted by German military officers as he enters a building to confer with Marshal Erwin Rommel and his staff who were sent to oversee the bolstering of Italian defenses. Marshal Graziani confers with the German officers. Marshal Rommel bids him farewell as he leaves the building. Rommel and accompanying German staff officers leave in a car to inspect Italian defenses (possibly Liguria region). They observe Italian workers building concrete fortifications. They visit sites where a German sentry is seen walking along a fortification wall and German troops are seen manning a variety of heavy guns in coastal defenses.
A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. U.S. troops in a jeep drive on a road. Wrecked vehicles on side of the road. French soldiers carry a flag and march. They stand in formation. French troops with all equipment advance towards the 6th Core Front. French troops advance and climb high mountains. A soldier carves turkey and cooks food for celebration on Christmas day. A jeep loaded with cooked food drives towards mountains. Mules carry supplies and move up on a mountain. The soldiers carry turkey and other food stuff on the mountain.
A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Battle for Cassino which was a part of the Italian Campaign during World War II. U.S. 6th Armored Infantry Regiment troops advance on trucks. A barrel of a gun in the foreground. Fire by tanks and artillery. Mountains in the foreground. A town on the foot of Monastery Hill. A historic abbey which contains many medieval treasures. A German official at the abbey. A German soldier looks through binoculars. Troops around an artillery fire. A hand holding a leaflet. Leaflets are fired. A U.S. aircraft in flight over Monastery Hill and a pilot in the cockpit. Aircraft drop bombs over the abbey . Smoke rises due to an explosion. Soldiers fire guns. German troops at the abbey look through the binoculars. They fire guns. 5th Army troops on tanks advance. Aircraft in flight. Colonel William W. Quinn seated in a chair talks about the next story that is the invasion of Southern France.
British Embassy bombing in Rome, Italy. A newsreel titled ' British embassy dynamited' shows the wrecked front portion of British embassy in Rome, Italy after it was bombed. The British Embassy (Via XX Settembre 80/a, 00187 Rome, Italy) with a gaping entranceway and its residential section damaged. The internal façade of the Porta Pia, a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, can be seen in the background. People look at the bomb wreckage. Roman Carabinieri on the scene. A Carabinieri searches for evidence in the rubble. Trinitrotoluene planted in suitcases caused the explosion.
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