A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. U.S. troops in a jeep drive on a road. Wrecked vehicles on side of the road. French soldiers carry a flag and march. They stand in formation. French troops with all equipment advance towards the 6th Core Front. French troops advance and climb high mountains. A soldier carves turkey and cooks food for celebration on Christmas day. A jeep loaded with cooked food drives towards mountains. Mules carry supplies and move up on a mountain. The soldiers carry turkey and other food stuff on the mountain.
A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Battle for Cassino which was a part of the Italian Campaign during World War II. U.S. 6th Armored Infantry Regiment troops advance on trucks. A barrel of a gun in the foreground. Fire by tanks and artillery. Mountains in the foreground. A town on the foot of Monastery Hill. A historic abbey which contains many medieval treasures. A German official at the abbey. A German soldier looks through binoculars. Troops around an artillery fire. A hand holding a leaflet. Leaflets are fired. A U.S. aircraft in flight over Monastery Hill and a pilot in the cockpit. Aircraft drop bombs over the abbey . Smoke rises due to an explosion. Soldiers fire guns. German troops at the abbey look through the binoculars. They fire guns. 5th Army troops on tanks advance. Aircraft in flight. Colonel William W. Quinn seated in a chair talks about the next story that is the invasion of Southern France.
Bakers cook bread for Italian people during World War II, after the retreating German Army destroyed or removed all bread flour stores. Massive stacks of bags of flour in a warehouse. Workers unpile sacks of grain flour. Bakers empty the contents of the sacks in utensils for preparing bread. Bakers smile as they roll dough and bake bread. Pile of breads. Civilians standing outside the store of bread. Inside, a store keeper cuts bread and weighs it for each customer. They buy breads. At the home of an Italian family, civilian man, woman, and children eat bread and soup, and drink wine.
Allied troops break through the German Gustav line, during World War II. Allies troops fire guns, howitzers, mortars and machine guns on Nazi positions. French troops fire artillery and Sherman tanks fire. Explosions and smoke rise. French troops capture Castelforte, nicknamed 'little Cassino' on May 14. German prisoners are being taken as they surrender. Wounded Allied soldiers. Troops move through the ruins of captured Castleforte. British break through the Gustav line and on May 18 capture destroyed Monte Cassino. View of broken walls of the gutted Benedictine Abbey. Gutted buildings of town. Ruined building. Allied troops move ahead and advance. Bedraggled inhabitants return to their towns. An old woman eats bread. Planes in flight.
Troops in universal carriers (Bren carriers) advance through Italian countryside near Cassino. British soldiers passing at the side of a dirt road. Soldiers walking on foot. German POW soldiers are captured on the road. A captured German prisoner of war in full uniform. Allied soldiers escort and herd German prisoners over dirt roads. Faces of battle weary German prisoners of war.
Italian factory workers sweeping the floor before starting their work as part of Marshall Plan recovery post World War II. A worker is seen polishing a machine. Workers repair and paint a cashier booth with sign “CASSA” (“Cashier”). A pair of workers cleaning a machine. Smoke rises from factory smokestack. Italian workers punch their timecards. Italian machine shop workers operate lathes. Wide shot of machine shop workers in factory.
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