Liberation of Rome by the Allies during World War II. Buildings in an area. Smoke rises. Allied soldiers advance across a field along a barbed wire fence. The soldiers advance on a road. Native women on a street.
Liberation of Rome by the Allies during World War II. Allied soldiers advance across a field and take German soldiers as prisoners. German prisoners being questioned by the soldiers. Allied soldiers walk down a street as they advance. A dead German soldier in a trench. A dead soldier in an armored car. A wounded native being loaded onto an ambulance.
Liberation of Rome by the Allies during World War II. Smoke rises from behind trees. Smoke rises from a tank on fire. Allied soldiers loaded onto tanks and trucks move past the burning tank. The Allied convoy advances along a road.
Punjabs of 8th Indian Division, British XIII attached to United States 5th Army advance through the valley and up the slope in a mock attack. Indian troops fire Bren guns, rifles and toss hand grenades. Native troops crawl forward. A medic gives aid to a man hit by shrapnel. Native troops fire British mortar and white phosphorus shells explode. (World War II period).
Montage of scenes recorded after the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War 2. Opening scene shows New Zealand 19th RHQ tank in Mignano Montelungo, as the 24th New Zealand Battalion re-enacts its entry into the ruins of Monte Cassino, on March 26, 1944. In this restaging, 24th Battalion infantrymen are shown moving through rubble of destroyed town, firing small arms and one throwing a hand grenade. Narrator identifies "Hangman's Hill," (which was held by the 1st battalion 9th Gurkha Rifles) at Monte Cassino. In this restaging , New Zealanders, scramble over rubble, and dig out a "wounded" comrade, while explosions occur in background. Medics "attend" to him. Other NZ troops fire small arms from behind rubble barriers. A huge explosion occurs in background. A British artillery piece (obscured by debris) fires rounds. Infantrymen fire small arms. A camouflaged British tank fires its gun. In change of scene, other British troops advance cautiously near a damaged building and take several German soldiers prisoner. View of the destroyed Monte Cassino monastery and castle on Castle Heights. Ruins of building adjacent to the "Hotel Excelsior,"below the castle. Several medics with Red Cross flag in distant rubble. Views from destroyed Monastery atop the mountain. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Bakers cook bread for Italian people during World War II, after the retreating German Army destroyed or removed all bread flour stores. Massive stacks of bags of flour in a warehouse. Workers unpile sacks of grain flour. Bakers empty the contents of the sacks in utensils for preparing bread. Bakers smile as they roll dough and bake bread. Pile of breads. Civilians standing outside the store of bread. Inside, a store keeper cuts bread and weighs it for each customer. They buy breads. At the home of an Italian family, civilian man, woman, and children eat bread and soup, and drink wine.
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