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Scenes from the Battle of San Pietro, Italy, during World War II

Elements of the U.S. 36th Infantry Division engaging in the Battle of San Pietro, during World War 2. Opening scene shows U.S. infantrymen of the 141st Infantry Regiment synchronizing their watches on H-Hour, D-Day, the 15th of December, 1943. Next they move forward 400 yards from their positions and are immediately pinned down by heavy artillery fire from German defenders. Soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 143rd Infantry Regiment advance 100 yards and hunker down at barbed wire barrier close to German defense line. They also come under heavy German artillery fire. American Sherman tanks enter the Town of San Pietro to find and destroy the German artillery interfering with the American advances. Views of U.S. tanks on the move. Narrator states that 16 tanks were dispatched along the road to San Pietro. Three reached the outskirts. German gunfire destroys two of these. Smoke rising from a struck tank. Views of pieces of destroyed tanks. Destroyed and abandoned American tanks. American infantrymen carrying a wounded on a litter past a knocked out Sherman tank. View of one (of four) tanks returning to the Regimental Bivouac area. Parachute flares illuminate the battlefield at night, where small American units succeed in penetrating German defenses, but are forced to move back again due to flanking German artillery and machine gun fire. Closeups of several wounded American infantry being moved on stretchers.

Location: Italy
Date: 1943, December 15
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022973
Italian Co-Belligerent Army. Truck loaded with Italian soldiers and barracks bags driven to town in Italy.

Troops of Italian Co-Belligerent Army. The Italian First Motorized Group, the first Italian unit to fight alongside the Allies after the armistice of September, 1943, moves to the front in early December, 1943. Italian soldiers stand on roadway. They look at maps and talk. Two soldiers with dog. Italian officer speaks to the soldiers. Soldiers listen to officer, holding pen and papers. Soldiers unroll telephone wires. Soldiers load barracks bags on truck. Truck loaded with soldiers drives past. Men wave the soldiers. A convoy of trucks moves along road. Civilians with carts move in opposite direction. Trucks parked in Italian town. A soldier waves the flag. Soldiers talk with civilians. Soldiers stand on sidewalk. Trucks cross bridge. (World War II period).

Location: Italy
Date: 1943, December
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024689
Trucks loaded with Italian soldiers of the Co-Belligerent Army pass signs in Italy.

Soldiers of the Italian Co-Belligerent Army. The Italian First Motorized Group, the first Italian unit to fight alongside the Allies after the armistice of September, 1943, move to the front in early December, 1943. Trucks loaded with soldiers driven. A convoy of trucks and jeeps moves along road. Soldiers seated in trucks with guns. Trucks pass signs of nearby towns: 'Venafro-Mignano' and 'Pietravairano'. (World War II period).

Location: Italy
Date: 1943, December
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024690
Italian army trucks and ski troops move on snow covered hill of Alps in Italy during World War I

Italian Army operations in Winter during World War 1. A column of Italian canvas-covered army trucks moves along a mountain road in the snow. Italian ski troops in a line, walk on skies across a snowy slope. They then ski down the slope.

Location: Italy
Date: 1917
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026088
Italy and Austro-Hungary sign an armistice and Italian troops enter the city of Trento in World War I

In final days of World War 1, October, 1918, Italian troops are seen proceeding against Austro-Hungarian forces. The Italians advance and employ a large searchlight over the trenches at night. Shells burst above the battlefield. After Austria requested an armistice (signed on November 3rd) Austrian troops are seen surrendering in large numbers and assembling in open areas. Meanwhile, Italian troops enter the city of Trento in the Alps mountain range.

Location: Italy
Date: 1918, November
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026090
Italian Bersaglieri demonstrate readiness to engage Austro-Hungarian forces in mountains of Italy during World War I

Bersaglieri troops of the Italian Army use ropes to rappel down a jagged cliff face. They then take up prone positions in a line, where their unique black capercaillie feathers can be seen on their helmets. They fire their rifles. Afterwards, they crawl forward in formation and slash through a barbed wire obstacle. (WWI; WW1)

Location: Italy
Date: 1915
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028066
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