United States 5th Army's invasion of Anzio, Italy during World War II. A 5th Army soldier with a wooden mine called wood shoe. Soldiers advance ahead after clearing a field of mines. Nazi prisoners are made to march. Wounded American soldiers being treated. A medic performs a surgery. Wounded on litters being carried aboard a landing craft. The litters placed on the craft. The landing craft pulls away from the coast and approaches a ship.
The Allied Campaign in Italy during World War II. United States 5th Army enters Naples on 1st October, 1943. People welcome the army. Women wave the American flag from a balcony of a building. A sunken ship in a harbor. Italian civilians return to their homes in Naples. A farm house damaged by the Germans. Men remove debris and dead bodies. A dead child. Dead bodies lying on ground. Men cover the dead with a sheet.
Captured German JU-88 aircraft at an Allied-controlled airfield in European Theater during World War II. General Carl Spaatz and other officers stand under the nose of JU-88 Junkers aircraft. Pilot climbs in the belly turret of the aircraft followed by the crew members. Ladder being folded and placed inside the turret. Turret being closed. Mechanics crank the motors of JU88. Propellers rotate and motor starts. Aircraft taxis along the airfield. JU 88 Junker takes off.
A documentary about the dangers posed by avalanches and the methods to control them in the mountainous regions of the United States. A snow ranger on Mount Baldy in Alta, Utah prepares a package of avalanche starters. Ranger works on cables and a pack of explosives. He tosses the charge onto an avalanche slope. A slide pass being treated. Snow comes rolling down the pass. Snow comes down the same slope on another day. Corners of the slide being treated as ranger digs and plants a charge. Snow blown away. A safety rope helps the ranger stay on top as the explosive goes off in the corner.
A training film about the means of forecasting and controlling avalanches in Alta, Utah. A 75 mm Mountain Howitzer fired from a highway. It does not result in an avalanche. A 105 mm Recoilless Rifle being fired at a slope, which does not result in an avalanche. Backlash of the rifle results in two avalanches down a slope.
A training film about the means of forecasting and controlling of avalanches in Alta, Utah. A 105 mm Recoilless Rifle fired from a tower. A 75 mm Recoilless Rifle fired from a temporary tower. The Shell impacts and snow drifts down a slope at a great speed.
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