Santa Maria, Italy. 3rd Ranger Battalion soldiers moving cautiously through the streets. Soldiers carrying rifles and mortars. Soldiers running towards the ditches in order to take cover and hide themselves. Soldier looks through binoculars and signals to others. Soldiers running and taking cover, prone in places through orchards. Soldiers set up 60mm mortar on the ground. Several soldiers lying in prone positions and firing from rifles. (World War II period).
Two C-47 planes landing at an airport in Paestum Italy. Several aircraft parked at the airfield. Soldiers unloading barracks bags and other equipment from the plane. Soldiers carry bags on their shoulder and place them on the ground. (World War II period).
Several LCI Landing Crafts Infantry moored in line at the Red Beach in Paestum, Italy during Operation Avalanche of World War II. Infantrymen walking towards the landing crafts and several army trucks moving on the beach. Three barrage balloons moving overhead above the beach.
View of guns mounted on an allied destroyer firing at targets in Salerno,Italy. Views of mountainous coastline in background while several ships and landing crafts moving near the beach including one carrying aircraft on a special platform. Smoke rising near the shore. Soldier looking through binoculars on the approaching warship. Soldiers standing near the mounted gun on the warship and looking towards the shore. Repeated scenes of landing crafts moving towards shore. (World War II period).
View of covered bodies lying on stretchers on the beach in Salerno, Italy. Soldiers loading bed rolls on Dukw amphibious vehicles. An American P-40 aircraft downed at the shallow waters off shore. View of landing crafts approaching shore. Convoy of landing crafts moving towards beach. Ships moving in sea, mountainous coasts in the background. (World War II period).
Several landing crafts lined up in shallow water near the beach in Salerno Italy. Soldiers driving army jeeps out from the LST landing crafts in shallow water and moving towards the land. Several Dukw and other army vehicles moving on the beach. Soldiers unloading bags and other equipment from the ships. Few bodies of American soldiers covered with blankets lying on the ground. (World War II period).
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