A water clock in a park in Italy. The 17th Anniversary of the water clock as it runs smoothly for seven decades without faltering. The clock is powered by the flow of a mountain stream. View of parts of the clock with water falling and the pendulum ticking.
A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II. USAAF pilots prepare to leave for an air raid. The pilots get into the cockpit of P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft.
A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft prepare to leave as propellers rotate. The aircraft line up. A pilot gets in the cockpit of an aircraft. Guns and 500 pound bombs aboard the aircraft. Men on an observation tower. One of them speaks over a phone. The aircraft taxi along a field and take off.
A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft in flight over an open sea. A castle on a cliff near a shore. Aerial view of the aircraft in a formation flight. A bomb under the wing of an aircraft. Aerial view of a bridge. The aircraft fly in a loose string formation. The aircraft peel off while in flight. An aircraft drops and a bomb being released. The aircraft pulls up. Another bomb drops and columns of smoke rise up.
U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.
View from rocks above as the USS LST -349, is seen being pounded by wind and wave against rocks off Ponza, Italy during World War 2. German prisoners of war are huddled together on her deck as American crew members work to rescue them. Prisoners are seen being assisted as they climb up the steep rocks from the ship. Some are ferried off in inflated rafts. Narrator says: “The ship begins to break in two, with some crew and 20 prisoners still aboard.” View of ship going down as those on the rocks struggle and rescue efforts continue. Narrator states: “The waves swept two Americans and six German prisoners off the cliffs to their deaths. In all, 14 died, 4 Americans, one British officer, and 9 German prisoners.” In the final scene, the ship has sunk out of sight and all survivors (unseen) have moved inland.
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