U.S. Army 337th Engineers ("Keystone Engineers") near Avellino in the Campania region of Italy. View of a portion of a partially destroyed bridge over the Calore River. Soldiers working with various equipment and repairing the bridge. (World War II period).
Ships at the harbor in Paestum Italy. People moving on the beach at the shore. Army tents and clothing hanging outside the tents on the beach. A Dukw amphibious truck passes along the road near the beach. Truck moving on the road with people walking along roadsides
The American light cruiser, USS Savanah (CL-42) is seen streaming smoke as it cruises at high speed, after being hit by a German “Fritz X” radio-guided bomb during World War 2. Next Lieutenant General Mark Clark, Commanding General, Fifth Army, is seen descending a ladder from the USS Ancon (AGC-4), a headquarters and communications command ship, from which he had been observing the amphibious landings at Salerno, Italy. General Clark is helped aboard a waiting PT boat, where he joins several other officers on deck, with whom he converses.
Two C-47 planes landing at an airport in Paestum Italy. Several aircraft parked at the airfield. Soldiers unloading barracks bags and other equipment from the plane. Soldiers carry bags on their shoulder and place them on the ground. (World War II period).
View of several 105mm Howitzer guns scattered on a field near Salerno Italy. (The location has been identified as near the village of Bivio Santa Cecilla, west of the railroad and just east of highway no. 18.) Units of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division, 160th Field Artillery, load and fire phosphorus shells at the German-held area called the "Tobacco Factory" (a circular formation of brick buildings on the Sele River, about a mile west of Persano). (World War II period).
U.S. Army troops of 179th Infantry entering village at Ponte Barizzo, Salerno, Italy, during World War 2. Some ride in a DUKW amphibious vehicle, and a few trucks are seen. But most soldiers simply walk through the area. An officer in a parked jeep watches as the troops move past. Soldiers hoist one of two captured German Panzer III Ausf L Flamethrower tanks with a U.S. tank recovery truck, and haul it away. Tank has unusual '2 squared' marking - vehicle number is raised above platoon number. A U.S. Army soldier, standing in the turret, steers the German tank as it is being towed. Elements (not seen) of the 753rd Tank Battalion and 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion were also engaged in this operation. (Note: Location has been identified as the intersection of SP11a and SP 278 east of the Sele River.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
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