Filmed titled 'German and Italian Sneak Craft' describes and dramatizes the methods and machines used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War II. Methods and machines used are swimmers, human torpedoes, midget submarines, explosive boats, torpedo boats aka S-boats or Schnellboots. A U.S. ship sinks after an Axis attack. Views of harbors at Alexandria, Souda Bay, and Algiers. Rock of Gibraltar. Task force heads for enemy beach. Allied ships in harbor.
Dramatization of methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces in World War II. Method of attack shows different kinds of clothing worn by swimmer. Swimmers swim in water. Method of attacking a ship shows swimmer with camouflaged face comes close to a ship and removes his mask and puts on a nose clip. Swimmer then goes underwater.
Dramatizes the methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War II Italian SLC (Siluro a Lenta Corsa) -200 Maiale human torpedo hoisted on dock. Ocean in the background. Warhead is clamped onto the nose of torpedo. Rudder, motor switch, and instrument panel of Maiale. Maiale is hoisted to release it on water. Torpedo operator gets ready with two high pressure bottles. Two men on torpedo. Torpedo submerges. Animation shows how undetected torpedo boat reaches to Allied ship and second man on torpedo places the warhead on a ship. Torpedo moves away after placing the charge. Maiale surfaces.
Demonstration of methods used by Axis powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War II. A German Biber midget submarine. Biber being launched in sea. Biber underway. An operator at controls.
Dramatizes the methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War 2. Italian MTSM (Motoscafo da turismo modificato) torpedo boat hoisted on dock. Propellers and engines of the boat. MTSM underway at sea. German version of torpedo boat Wendel launched in sea armed with two torpedoes. Two rocket launchers, one on either side of the pilot house. Wendel underway at sea. Another Italian torpedo boat underway.
Army vehicles of U.S. 85th Regiment pass through shell torn villages in Italy during the Po Valley Offensive of World War 2. Vehicles pushing from Monte Pastore drive through a shell torn village. Italian civilians walk through the debris. Opening scene shows local man, woman, and girl, standing in doorway of a house. An American soldier appears momentarily nearby. Next, two Army trucks followed by several jeeps, drive down a narrow street, raising lots of dust. Some Italian civilians watch from a stoop at entrance of a building. A lone jeep passes in the opposite direction. The houses of the village are made of masonry and stone. Two women and two and two children walk over some rubble. A jeep pulling a trailer speeds past the camera. In the background, two American soldiers are eating. Next to them is a stretcher, leaning against the building wall. Other supplies are also seen in the vicinity. A truck drives past. (Note: Plain paper opening slate simply says "Kurland." which, reportedly refers to David Kurland, 196th Signal Photo Co.)
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