Aerial views of B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft from the U.S. 12th Army Air Force in flight. Aircraft dropping bombs over rail yards of Bologna and Florence, Italy. Close views of bombs descending from aircraft toward ground. (World War II period).
General Eisenhower, Allied commander in Sicily and General Patton of U.S. 7th Army, talking in Sicily, Italy, during World War 2. British General Montgomery, steps down a plane. He shakes hand with U.S. Lieutenant General George S. Patton. Two hundred thousand Axis prisoners of war, mostly Italian, are assembled and board ships for POW camps in Africa, Britain, and the United States.
General George S Patton, Major General Gillem, Major General Middleton, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Major General Allen and Brigadier General Coltet, stand on roadside and chat in Sicily, Italy.
Loading material supply from a freight ship to a DUKW amphibious vehicle in Salerno, Italy. A man drives DUKW near the ship, material from ship lowered to DUKW and it sails away. Buildings on the harbor. DUKW drives on wheels on the shore. It reaches a storage yard where already unloaded material kept in stacks. Boxes offloaded from the DUKW.
World War II Allied convoy underway at sea. Allied forces amphibious landing at Salerno at night, in Italy. Darkness illuminated by flashes of gunfire. Navy guns blast enemy positions and German planes. German warplanes bombing and strafing Allied ships. Several Allied ships burning. Helmsman on Allied landing craft looks back at German plane falling into sea, when he takes cover away from the tiller. General Mark Clark rides to shore in a landing craft along with his troops. 5th Army troops dig in furiously on the beachhead and dive into their foxholes as they come under German firing. British General Harold Alexander, commander of Allied 15th Army Group confers with U.S. General Mark Clark. Nurses arrive by C-47 aircraft and treat wounded soldiers. Views of destroyed German armor and artillery including German Pz.IV tank from 16th Panzer Division. Nurses and medics load Allied wounded onto landing craft for evacuation. German prisoners of war walk under armed escort and dig graves to bury their dead. Allied forces move forward on battlefront. Several Allied C-47 transport planes are seen flying low over the area.
Military Museum at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Italy. Tower of the Castello Sforzesco. Portraits of Italian Army personnel, uniforms, badges, maps and equipment exhibited inside the military museum. Visitors look at photographs inside the museum. They look at an album with pictures of various officers. Newspaper clippings hung on wall.
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