A U.S. 3rd Division soldiers training in Anzio area, Italy during World War II. Soldiers in prone position fire rifle grenades. A grenade on the muzzle of a rifle. The soldiers advance on a field. A group of soldiers watches from a hillside. Smoke rises from the field due to grenade explosions. Grenade explosions near a German tank.
A U.S. 3rd Division soldiers training in Anzio area, Italy during World War II. A patrol leader instructs his men. A soldier in a prone position fires a rifle. The soldiers crouched on a field.
A U.S. 3rd Division soldiers training in Anzio area, Italy during World War II. A wrecked Italian tank in a field. A grenade explosion near the tank throws billows of smoke up in the air. The soldiers advance through the field and fire rifles. Grenade explosions near the tank. A soldier runs on a hillside.
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.)
U.S. 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division advances in Italy during the Po Valley Offensive of World War 2. Two Field Grade officers of the 86th Regiment examine and discuss tactical maps at an outdoor command post. The area is dry and dusty. They rinse their hands at a water pump on the street. Infantrymen are issued bandoliers with cartridges and also hand grenades (some of which are tossed to them)..
U.S. 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division soldiers in a shell torn village in Italy during the Po Valley Offensive of World War II. The soldiers stop to take a smoke after more than three days of intensive fighting. The soldiers drink water from a pump. One soldier turns the hand crank as others drink from the well.
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