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Allied Naval Task Force operations supporting Amphibian assault on Salerno, Italy, in World War II
Opening scene shows the USS Savannah (CL 42), on 11 September, 1943, after being struck by a German remotely controlled glider bomb released from a high flying German aircraft, She was supporting Allied amphibious operations at Salerno, Italy, in World War 2. Next, after fires were put out and smoke cleared, The disabled Savannah is seen sitting low in the water, making way slowly, among other Naval Task force ships in the background. (She made way to Malta under her own steam for emergency repairs.) Views of the Savannah passing as she heads for Malta. A Fletcher class destroyer fires her naval guns at the shore. Attack transports and other support ships are seen nearby. More views of support ships, including the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). A barrage balloon seen above the convoy in some scenes. Sailors manning a Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun aboard a U.S. warship. A British Escort Carrier with number 337 on her bow. Sailors with a Oerlikon 20 mm cannon aboard a warship. The British Escort Carrier seen earlier, (with number 337 on her bow) passes the camera ship. Aircraft are seen on her flight deck. A Navy warship firing 40mm Bofors and 5-inch guns as it lays down a smoke screen.
Fleet Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and General Dwight Eisenhower receive Italian fleet surrender in Italy.
The Italian fleet surrenders before the Allied powers in Italy during World War II. Warships underway at sea. British Royal Navy Fleet Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other officers on the bridge of a warship. Distant aerial view of ships in a convoy. Italian battleships Vittorio Veneto and Littoria underway. Italian warships at anchor. Italian warships and submarines at sea. An Italian officer shakes hands with a British officer. An Italian Admiral and aides arrive at a pier in a launch. They are greeted by Admiral Cunningham.
The Allied Military Government (AMG) begins immediate efforts to cleanup and rebuild Liberated areas of Sicily in World War II.
Allied Military Government efforts to rebuild Sicily after capturing it from Axis forces during World War 2. Italian men needing employnent board an open truck for transport to a job site. Workers standing with American soldiers preparing to work. A huge crowd of men pushing and shoving outside an Allied Military Government (AMG) labor hiring headquarters where they were offered decent wages to begin rebuilding after the war's destruction. Italian men, as well as American soldiers, rebuilding roads in the Alpine region of Italy, where German forces had destroyed them as they withdrew. U.S. Army engineers using a bulldozer, to clear and smooth a road. A large dump truck spreading new gravel for a highway bed. A team of workers manning a cable to pull down a damaged portion of a building. A British Army officer and a Colonial soldier in a turban, set explosive charges to destroy a bomb-damaged building. They detonate the charges and bring down the entire large building. Bulldozers at work on huge piles of rubble. A steam shovel being employed to clear large piles of debris. Men at work in Palermo, to clear entire streets buried in rubble. Men clearing rubble near piles of twisted steel building girders. Rubble being moved by horse-drawn carts and dumped into the sea. Italian masons at work building new homes and refurbishing old ones. In views three months after the original Allied landing in Sicily during July,1943, Palermo is seen well on the way to restoration. School children, including girls with brooms, walking to a place needing cleanup. Views of them cleaning steps and windows. Citizens picking up debris from streets and sidewalks. A man using a hose to clean a street and sidewalk in the city.
Wedding ceremony of Anna Maria,sister of Sophia Loren and Romano Mussolini son of Benito Mussolini in Predappio, Italy.
Wedding ceremony of Anna Maria Scicolone and Romano Mussolini in Predappio, Italy. Church of Sant'Antonio (Piazza S. Antonio, 3, 47016 Predappio FC, Italy) in Predappio. Rachele Mussolini, widow of dictator Benito Mussolini, arrives at a church to attend the wedding of her son Romano Mussolini. Romano Mussolini marries Anna Maria, the sister of Italian actress Sophia Loren. The crowd stares as Sophia Loren arrives at the wedding. The priest undertakes the wedding proceedings. Romano Mussolini puts a ring on his bride Anna Maria.
U.S. Army forces assault the German Winter Line of Defense during the Italian campaign of World War II
American troops of the 45th Infantry Division, are seen in mountains after breaking through the first segment of the German Winter Line, near San Pietro Infine, Italy, in World War 2. It is Christmas Day, 1943 and they occupy Mount Lungo. They receive Christmas dinner in their individual mass kits and sit down on the ground to eat it. On December 28th, they employ pack mules and also use stretchers to retrieve remains of fallen 3rd Division defenders down the steep mountain trails of Mount Lungo. They place the carefully wrapped remains at the base of a bullet pock-marked stone structure. Scene shifts to Mount Sammucro where American troops take advantage of a brief lull in fighting. On 1 January, 1944, Second Corp reinforcements have arrived and Americans commence a new assault on the German Winter Line defenses, with an artillery barrage on German positions guarding San Vittore del Lazio. View of smoke rising from that town. Shelling of Mountaintop flanking Highway 6held by Germans. Groups of American troops firing mortars from valley below. Shells exploding on German positions. Closeup of American gun crew loading and firing a 155mm long tom field gun. Soldiers holding their ears when gun fires. Bombs dropped from American warplane aircraft explode near roads in the valley. Glimpse from U.S. warplane flying overhead, of smoke rising from German positions in the Winter Line. Soldiers of the 168th Infantry Regiment firing a recoiless rifle from wooded area. Shells striking at base of mountain. Troops of the U.S. 137 Infantry Regiment advancing on San Vittore. view in the Italian town on 7 January, 1944, when street fighting has ended. American soldiers are seen mingling with the civilian inhabitants. German military equipment destroyed and burning during the American Winter Line offensive. Captured German soldiers being taken into custody, searched, and processed as prisoners of war.
Allies, including U.S. Fifth Army, encounter heavy enemy resistance in amphibious assault at Salerno, Italy, in World War 2
Allied invasion at Salerno, Italy, during 2nd World War. Scenes of U.S. Sherman tanks, military vehicles and troops, moving easily through Sicily. Animated map depicts allied invasion routes from Bizerte, North Africa, to two points on opposite sides of Italy mainland. Convoys emerge from smoke screens in bay of Salerno, Italy. Allied warship creating heavy black smoke screen. Decks of LSTs crammed with trooops and vehicles. Allied warships bombard Salerno coastline. Commandos, Rangers and Seabees, in first assault wave are targets of German guns and dive bombers. Pontoon boat dropped from LST, with 35 Seabees aboard, strikes a mine, and is destroyed, setting off conflagration on the LST. Other LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) discharging vehicles to the beach over floating causeways, under enemy fire. Destroyed U.S. Sherman tanks, vehicles and a U.S. P-40 aircraft , litter the beach. A Seabee uses semaphore flags to direct an LST to beach area. Seabees build shelters for war materiel and dressing stations where allied wounded are treated. Seabees continue to unload supplies to beachhead. Brief view of Lieutenant General Mark Clark, 5th Army commander, on the beachhead. Allied casualties being tended. Stretcher bearers carry wounded. Allied troops advancing on roads in Italy. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, concludes narration of the Seabee documentary, from his office in Washington, DC
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