Santa Maria, Italy. 3rd Ranger Battalion soldiers moving cautiously through the streets. Soldiers carrying rifles and mortars. Soldiers running towards the ditches in order to take cover and hide themselves. Soldier looks through binoculars and signals to others. Soldiers running and taking cover, prone in places through orchards. Soldiers set up 60mm mortar on the ground. Several soldiers lying in prone positions and firing from rifles. (World War II period).
Lieutenant General George S Patton leaves headquarters in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II. He climbs into his custom-armored M3A1White Scout Car, equipped with two machine guns, and accompanied by staff, drives off. General Patton standing along roadside waving as his troops drive past in vehicles. General Patton, Major General Geoffrey Keyes and Colonel Campanole seated in jeep in one of the cities and look at maps while Maj Gen. Lucian Truscott stands next to the jeep. The generals ride through the streets and enter a building.
Victims of Nazi German atrocities found in Italy after World War II. Dead bodies of 320 Italians shot in head with hands tied behind, at the Ardentine Caves. Dead bodies lying in a muddy tunnel taken out by guards. Roman Catholic priests performing burial ritual of a dead, unties hands of a dead man. Priests and relatives present at the last rites of the dead. Woman cries at the death of her relative.
Spectacular gas warfare battle staged for Duce' shows deadly fumes caused by flame throwers and poison gas bombs while rehearsing gas battle in Campagna Romana in Italy. Tanks move across as smoke is seen in the background and soldiers wearing gas mask rehearse for the gas warfare. Duce and other officers look on.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in a meeting near Brenner Pass in Italy. Adolf Hitler gives a Nazi salute. Dignitaries get out of a car and enter a building. They sit down to talk. Italian and German officers converse with each other. Adolf Hitler and Mussolini look at a large map on table. The dignitaries get out of a Limousine and shake hands with each other. Adolf Hitler and his staff waive as Mussolini leaves on a train.
1st Engineer Assault Company at Po Valley, Italy. United States M4 Sherman tank equipped with crane lifts bundle of logs called fascines. M4 tanks with steel girder platform mounted on top, transport log of bundles. Tanks with the help of crane load tread way sections of bridge onto army tucks. Trucks loaded with logs drive on a dirt road.
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