Soldiers from the 30th Infantry Division in Battipaglia, Italy during World War II. Signboard of Battipaglia is seen. A horse driven cart, army trucks and soldiers pass by the wrecked buildings. Views of destroyed city, railway station and damaged sign boards due to war. Soldiers walk along the roadsides in army Jeeps and several soldiers walk on streets carrying their guns on shoulders.
Salerno Beach in Salerno, Italy during World War II. Views of trucks and British troops on a Landing Ship Tank (LST), men looking from the deck sides. Ship reaches the beach at Salerno. Enemy tracer bullets visible at night. British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft flying overhead. View of the LST2 captain, John P. Horgan, together with Randolph Churchill (Major Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill), son of Winston Churchill. Randolph Churchill observes the action through binoculars while smoking a cigarette and talking to the LST captain. On deck of a ship view of a German Prisoner of War and an American soldier playing chess and several other soldiers, some American and some British, standing by watching. U.S. military guards with German POWs on the beaches at Salerno.
British soldiers at the newly captured Montecorvino Airfield outside Salerno, Italy. Soldiers work near hangar at the airfield. A Focke-Wulf FW-190 apparently undamaged, along with two Messerschmitt Me 110s, undamaged. Several wrecked planes and ammunition lying on the airfield. British officers observe destroyed planes. British soldiers uncover and work to disable a large buried Teller German land mine. (World War II period).
British soldiers at the captured Montecorvino Airfield near Salerno, Italy. Two soldiers standby at antiaircraft artillery. One is looking through binoculars. Soldiers place a windsock on the ground. A British Spitfire plane lands on the airfield. Pilot gets down from cockpit. Italian officers demonstrate to British officers the disassembly of a German bomb. A man fuels the spitfire and it takes off again. (World War II period).
Views of village destroyed in Pompeii, Italy. Army trucks standing near the wrecked buildings. U.S. and British soldiers move through the battered village streets. Mount Vesuvius visible in the background. Soldiers talk to children standing near the army trucks. General Mark W. Clark along with other officers observes the damaged places and buildings. General Clark stands at the damaged Coliseum of Pompeii. Bomb crater visible in the middle of the Coliseum arena. The soldiers tour the Pompeii ruins. (World War II period).
General Mark W Clark and General Matthew B Ridgway in Pompeii, Italy during World War II. General Clark along with General Ridgway stands in an army jeep and moves through narrow village streets. People cheer and greet Army Officers and U.S. troops. General Clark waves to the cheering crowd as the convoy of army vehicles including M3 tanks move through the crowd.
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