340th bomb group bombs over invasion target near Salerno, operating from Catania in Italy. American bomber. Aerial view of invasion target near Salerno. Explosions over target areas. (World War II period).
340th bomb group raid over Potenza, Italy during World War II. Aerial view of Potenza. Bomb bay doors open on U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft and bombs are released and descend toward target at Potenza. View of American Mitchell B-25 bomber "Snow White II" landing after a mission. U.S. Army crew repositions the B-25 bomber in front of a German revetment wall. (World War II period).
321st bomb group bombs road junction Castelnovo in Italy. Bomb group in flight. Aerial view of road junction Castelnovo. Bomb explosions over target. American bomber in flight. (World War II period).
5th army lands and evacuate the wounded under enemy fire at gulf of Salerno in Italy. Ships at the gulf of Salerno, Italy. Bomb group in flight above gulf. Bombs exploded over ships. Explosions and smoke rising from ship. Wounded people in ship. A man climbs on truck. Army troop evacuate the wounded. Explosions on ship. U.S. army trucks driven to pier. Army unit at beach. Bomb explosions over ship. Smoke rising from ship. Flames of fire on ship. (World War II period).
U.S. Army 817th Army engineers build airfield within 24 hours near Salerno, Italy, in World War II. Members of the U.S. Army 817th Engineers Battalion are seen employing construction equipment to create a new emergency airfield near Salerno, Italy, during World War 2. A bulldozer uproots trees separating a tomato patch from a wheat field so both can be combined to create a larger space for an emergency airfield. A road grader passes a soldier seated in a piece of parked construction equipment, as it levels the ground. The operator in the parked equipment takes a drink from his canteen. Next, soldiers are seen wielding picks, and other hand tools to untangle clumps of earth and roots. Camera shows them next, working at the edge of the large cleared earthen airfield. They pause to wave to a P-38 lightning aircraft that has just landed at the new field. The P-38 passes on its landing roll, raising a cloud of dust. (Note: Moments after the end of the clip, this, first to land, P-38 had a fatal collision with a water truck, concealed in dust at the side of the runway.
Slate states: “Dust causes crash. P-38 plows into water truck. Pilot escapes. Two killed.” Members of the U.S. Army 817th Engineers Battalion, who have been building an emergency airfield , near Salerno, Italy, during World War 2, respond when the first P-38 airplane to land at the field, crashes into a water truck at the side of the dirt runway. Smoke rises from the crash scene. Camera focuses on the burning P-38 aircraft and the water truck. Soldiers use improvised slings to move the bodies of two victims away from the crash site. Meanwhile, other P-38 aircraft continue to land at the field. Smoke continues to billow from the burning P-38 airplane.
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