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Ponte Vecchio Bridge on Arno River and Tuscan Hills in Italy.
The Arno River in Italy during World War 2. People cross the river by a weir. Destroyed bridges across Arno River. Ruins near Ponte Vecchio (Ponte Vecchio, 50125 Firenze FI, Italy). Several people stand near the river. Tuscan Hills in the far background. People climb improvised stairs from the weir. People walk through the streets in Florence. A curfew sign in the background reads “Curfew for all troops 2100 hours”.
Italian police force check passes of civilians in Italy.
Carabinieri (Italian police force) check passes of civilians in Italy after liberation of Italy in World War 2. The civilians walk through 'No Man's Land' from Florence. A bulldozer clears the road in the background. Wrecked buildings in the background. Men and women stand in groups. Several men ride bicycles. People look across the river at ruined houses.
Italian Fascist Army soldiers line pontoons across the river, and build a pontoon bridge across the River Po in Italy.
Italian Fascist Army build a pontoon bridge over River Po, Italy. A group of Fascist Army soldiers carry pontoons to the shore of the River Po in Italy. The men lay the pontoons next to the river bank. They slide it to the river with the aid of strips of wooden logs laid in a line on the bank. The men go back and bring long pieces of wood and lay between the pontoons arranged in a line across the river. A large group of army soldiers at work on the bridge. The pieces of wood laid are fastened, forming a pontoon bridge over the river. The regiment passes over the pontoon bridge with the military vehicles following them. The army men stand on the pontoons and watch.
Soldiers engage in recreational activities like reading and playing cards in Italy.
Rest and relaxation services for soldiers provided by the United Service Organizations (USO) in Italy during World War II. In Anzio, Italy: U.S. Army soldiers do comic diving at a swimming pool during a water carnival. A man performs a serious dive, and then a clown performs a humourous dive from the high diving board. People watch the event. Men dressed as women (men in drag) during a bathing beauty contest. The men dressed as women and wearing makeup pass by. One is dressed like Mae West but smoking a cigar. The soldiers hold a casual rodeo event riding a bull and a horse until they are bucked off. Men and women at a beach. A man and a woman enjoy in water. In a USO club, soldiers suffering battle fatigue get a break and rest. Soldiers listen to a fellow soldier at a piano, as they sing. A soldier writes on a paper. Soldiers play cards, read and do other activities. Soldiers attend a dance with women brought in by the USO. Soldiers read in a U.S. Army library. Books and magazines on a table including many small pocket editions of popular books of the era.
Engineers work with air compressors and jackhammers and construct a bridge in Italy (WW2)
United States Army engineers find a destroyed road in Italy during World War II. Engineers inspect a mountain road destroyed by retreating German forces in Southern Italy. A rocky terrain and a shoreline. Engineers work on a blasted section with air compressors and jackhammers. The engineers carry oak beams and work to construct a bridge. A Jeep drives on the constructed bridge.
Amphibious operations in Italy, during Operations Husky and Avalanche. General hazards of wartime amphibious assaults including those in the Pacific Theater in World War II.
American soldiers in Italy, during Allied Operation Husky, and Operation Avalanche in World War 2. In landings during invasion of Salerno, Italy, soldiers pause their movements while two use a detector to search for possible buried mines. They detect one and are seen carefully digging it up from the sandy soil. Soldiers unroll steel matting across an area of beach. Close-up of heavy trucks moving across the matting. A bulldozer uses a cable to pull a section of temporary docking out of an LST (Landing ship tank). Troops move across several sections of such docking as they make their way onto the shore. A sherman tank making its way toward the shore . More heavy equipment coming ashore from LSTs, including a US M1 155mm “Long Tom” Gun. The gun being towed on shore, as trucks and jeeps maneuver through shallow water nearby. A long line of jeeps and trucks moving inland. Military vehicles being offloaded from the British Landing Ship Tank (HM LST-200). U.S. troops moving on a beachhead, along with artillery pieces, and vehicles. Soldiers carrying boxes of supplies and ammunition and struggling with large wooden crates of such, in shallow surf, and using a roller conveyor to offload some heavy items from a ship. A landing craft suspended from a cable operated A-Frame on wheels (in the water). At this point the thrust of the film shifts to illustrate the hazards of amphibious operations, in general. Swamped vehicles and a landing craft in the surf. The beach littered with damaged and swamped landing craft and equipment, including, among others, a landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). A huge explosion in the water. Glimpse of a German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bomber attacking while being shot down by a U.S. sailor firing an anti-aircraft gun . View from above of sailors firing twin bofors 40mm antiaircraft cannons from an emplacement on a ship. Several German Junkers Ju 87 planes maneuvering as they attack. Quad bofors antiaircraft guns firing from a ship. More attacking Ju-87 dive bombers on the attack. A dramatic explosion and smoke from the Liberty ship SS Robin Rowan after being hit by a German bomb off the coast of Gela, Sicily on July 11, 1943. A landing ship burning from German bombing, off Gela, Sicily, with its deck full of halftrack and personnel carrier vehicles. The film continues the theme of losses encountered in wartime amphibious assaults, by shifting to the Pacific theater of operation, where a Landing Ship Tank (LST) is seen ablaze, off Guadalcanal, after being hit by Japanese shelling. View from beach with barbed wire, ashore, of the burning LST. Sherman tanks lost in a conflagration aboard an LST. Sailors carry a casualty on a litter, and place it next to other fallen crew members, on deck.
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