A film titled 'Liberation of Rome' shows the arrival of Allied troops in Rome, Italy and the end of Fascist rule during World War II. On June 4, 1944: Allied 5th Army soldiers on the streets of Rome as people celebrate their liberation. Soldiers loaded on M4 Sherman tanks move past large crowds. The American flag. A Scots pipe band plays as they march through the throng. Allied soldiers march toward the Colosseum. Views of the Roman Forum, the Victor Emmanuel Memorial and the Piazza Venezia. British pipers marching through the crowd. U.S. troops in trucks towing artillery. People gathered in large numbers on the streets to celebrate the liberation of Rome. A sign reads ' War staff room Combined chiefs of staff '. Past events depict Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. at a meeting as they discuss the plan to liberate Italy from Fascist control. Animated map depicts Allied operations in North Africa and the invasion of Sicily. But highlights continued Axis air threat from Italian mainland. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini reviews troops in an undated scene. Nazi Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers taxing on an airfield at Foggia, Italy, earlier in the war. A German Heinkel He 111 bomber takes off. German troops and equipment transported on an armored railroad train. View of German quad Flak 30 anti-aircraft gun aboard the train. German StuG III Assault Guns and Panzer III & Panzer IV tanks being transported on railroad flatcars.
D-Day operations during Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Allied troops disembark from an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry) at Normandy beach. A man on a megaphone up on the bridge of a ship. Troops wade through surf to land at the beach. Bullets hit the water around the soldiers as they continue to unload from the LCI. LST ( Landing Ship Tank) -282 at the beach. Vehicles move along the beach. A U.S. Army 6X truck burns on the beach. The LCI ties up to the side of a transport. Allied troops disembark from the transport to the LCI along side. Vehicles off load from the LST to a smaller craft. A barge loaded with supplies heads towards the beach. The troops loaded in the LCU ( Landing Craft Utility) as it nears the beach. An officer talks over a phone next to a jeep. Vehicles leave the LCU into water with a beach in the background. The troops walk over the beach. Amphibious jeeps move through the surf. A 6X truck moves through the surf towards the beach. An amphibious jeep moves over a beach. German prisoners with their hands behind their heads. A barbed wire fence in the foreground. Prisoners duck downwards to escape an air raid.
United States 2/503rd - Later the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion in North Africa during World War II. Fully equipped 509th PIB paratroopers climb into United States Army Air Force C-47 transport airplanes to land in Italy. Soldiers lift the nose of a glider and load a 105 mm howitzer into the front end. The nose of the glider being lowered. The soldiers load a jeep into the front end of the glider. The nose of the glider being lowered.
United States Army Air Force C-47 aircraft in flight over Italy during World War II. The C-47 aircraft tow gliders while in flight. The aircraft in formation flight.
German prisoners in Normandy, France during World War II. German prisoners being made to march along a road in a wooded area under the guard of 82nd Air Borne Division paratroopers. An American soldier holds a gun and the prisoners stand with their hands behind their heads. American soldiers bring in German prisoners.
Film opens showing a Captain, Intelligence officer with the U.S 8th Airforce 97th Bombardment Group, debriefing Captain William “Bill” Musselwhite, Commander of the 342nd Bombardment Squadron, about his unit's experience participating in the first Eighth Air Force heavy bomber mission in World War II, attacking the Rouen-Sotteville marshalling yards in France, on August 17, 1942. Referring to a map, he asks Captain Musselwhite where his Squadron dropped their bombs. Musselwhite points out the path of his units aircraft and that his first aircraft overshot the target, but those following dropped "on range," bracketing the target on left and right, with one "stick" of bombs going right down the middle. He mentions one ship straying over the town of Rouen, itself.
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