A documentary television program titled 'The Big Picture' depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. U.S. soldiers advance on tanks. The soldiers climb up a snowy area and get off a landing craft. Sergeant James Mansfield speaks about the story of U.S. soldiers wearing a Blue Badge and the Italian Campaign fought by U.S. soldiers. The sergeant holds a Combat Infantryman Badge. Colonel William W. Quinn talks about the role of Combat Engineers and Blue Badge Infantryman in the Italian Campaign. Animated map of Italy shows British 8th Army capturing Foggia and U.S. 5th Army capturing Naples in Italy. The Volturno River and mountains in the background. A damaged bridge. Troops near the river. Animated map shows location of Allied troops. Engineers construct a bridge over the river. Allied troops cross the river with necessary supplies and artillery.
Depicts activities of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Major General Rider of U.S. 34th Infantry Division speaks to Colonel Butler Commander of 168th Infantry Division at Alvignano, Italy. U.S. troops advance towards Dragoni. U.S. Army 36th Artillery soldiers fire artillery, supporting the 45th Division, in an assault on the last line of hills leading to the Volturno Valley. A soldier gives water to an injured soldier on a stretcher. Soldiers carry injured on a stretcher. Japanese-American soldiers of the United States Army 100th Infantry Division arrive. They stand in a line and are served food. The troops eat their food. View of a dead German soldier, and of other German soldiers as they surrender to U.S. Army forces. U.S. 3rd Division troops fire artillery at Dragoni. Smoke rises in the foreground. A map of Italy showing Dragoni. The troops advance and the 168th Division is seen occupying Dragoni on the next day, without opposition. U.S. soldiers escort some German soldier prisoners of war from the German 3rd Panzer Grenadier and the 26th Panzer Divisions. A German soldier treats an injured fellow prisoner. Italian civilian refugee men and women walk in a roadway and are evacuated to the rear.
A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Animated map of Italy. Soldiers fire guns in a small town. Smoke rises due to firing. U.S. soldiers on tanks and trucks enter the town. Damaged buildings and rubble on a street. Troops walk past damaged building. U.S. troops and engineers construct of a bridge. They use a mobile crane for fast construction. The mobile crane in water. Troops at work during the construction. A truck moves on the bridge. The troops fill drinking water in tanks. A soldier fills hot water in a shower tank. Animated map of Italy shows U.S. troops moving towards their next destination. A small town and a dead soldier. The Volturno River. U.S. 3rd Infantry Division advances. A soldier carries a wounded German soldier and loads him in a jeep. Civilians are given first aid by the soldiers. An oil pipeline passing over a river. Two soldiers seated near the pipeline. U.S. Army soldiers filling 5 gallon jerry cans with gasoline fuel and loading the gas cans into the back of a truck.
U.S. airplanes and the 5th Army fight in Italy during World War II. Gun crews fire camouflaged artillery guns. Smoke rises from a hillside. U.S. airplanes bombard enemy territory. Nazi German supply lines are bombarded by bombers. Allied tanks roll ahead. Allied troops search for snipers in a captured Italian town. U.S. Army General Mark Wayne Clark watches while his men fire guns and mortars. Prisoners are freed in Cosenza and food is distributed by officials of Allied Military Government in Italy.
B-25 of the U.S. Army Air Forces 321st Bombardment Group parked at Grottaglie Airfield in Italy, during World War 2. It displays nose art showing two cartoon characters and lettering reading: "Sylvester the Snarp." Two characters are shown. The smallest shoulders a bomb. Missions flown by the plane are recorded with bombs painted on its fuselage. Momentary glimpse of another B-25 parked in the distance. Scene shifts to aerial view of bends in the Volturno River near Capua, Italy. At lower right of image, smoke can be seen rising from explosions as bombs strike a bridge over the river and nearby roadways. View from overflying aircraft is obscured momentarily by cloud cover. Then network of roads is clearly seen. Scene shifts to B-25 bombers flying in formation.
A map of Italy. A German convoy docks in Sicily, Italy. Troops debark and artillery is unloaded. Anti-aircraft down United States planes. German planes land in Sicily and parachute troops deplane. United States positions are bombed and strafed. German planes attack a United States convoy. (World War II period).
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