U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan, anti-fascist activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War 2. A U.S. radio operator receives a radio message at Operational Group headquarters after Cayuga Team (OSS Operational Group members) are parachuted in a drop zone. An officer takes a look at the message detailing requirement of equipment needed for the mission. The material is loaded in waiting U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain transport airplanes. The C-47s warm up before taking off. They taxi and take off from an airstrip. Formations of C-47s. Parachute supplies are dropped in drop zones in mountainous terrain.
Bengal Lancers of United States 5th Army at Gothic Line area in Italy. He looks over situation map of Gothic Line area.
Maharajah Yadvindra Singh inspects and addresses 6th Bengal Lancers of United States 5th Army at Gothic Line area in Italy. He examines American armored cars presented to Bengal lancers. Also inspects an American carbine.
Soldiers of 435th anti aircraft Battery attached to 2nd French Morocon division use a culvert under a road as a dugout in Italy. 40 mm anti aircraft gun and a culvert with two soldiers in the foreground. Inside the culvert a soldier reads a newspaper and another one smokes a cigar outside the culvert. French expeditionary forces receive PX ration to the west of Scapoli.
Burial of dead soldiers at French 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion as honor squad of 2nd French Moroccan division arrives at cemetery in Italy. Commanding General and soldiers attend the burial Soldiers carry caskets and place them before the Chaplain. He offers prayers and men sprinkle holy water over them. Caskets moved to burial sites. A French flag flies in background.
A dramatic roadway viaduct somewhere in Northern Italy. It is of steel and concrete construction with integral arches, and soars above a deep valley in which a river flows. The center portion of the bridge is gone, due to Allied bombing in World War 2. Camera pans over the viaduct from surrounding high terrain. (May be associated with a river named Olio, or perhaps, Oglio.)
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