A film titled 'Soft Tissue Wounds' shows U.S. soldiers being hit by shell fragments and their recovery after surgery in Naples during World War II. Bombs stacked on a field. U.S. sailors work around. A battleship's gun firing salvo. Fragments are removed by surgery from battle casualties. Reports of four cases handled in the Italian campaign of January 1944. The first case shows a soldier hit by a shell fragment. U.S. troops carry the soldier hit by the shell fragment in Italy. A truck moves ahead on a road. Wounded being carried into an evacuation hospital tent. A wound just below the buttock of a soldier. Primary infusion is given to the patient. The bleeding is controlled. The wound is dusted. Dressing completes an operation. The healing of the wound after a few weeks of the operation. The patient walks after healing. A U.S. soldier shows a scar under scapula. A U.S. LST (Landing Ship Tank) fires towards Anzio Harbor. [Note: script refers to British Hospital Carrier Leinster (#37) although footage appears to be of (British) Hospital Ship St. David (#27), later sunk by the Germans at Anzio in January, 1944]. A wounded soldier is carried on a stretcher aboard the hospital ship. Surgery is performed on the wounded soldier. The soldier on a bed after the operation. A ship underway at sea. A Red Cross ambulance and a truck transport the wounded soldiers to a hospital in Naples. The wound after one week of injury. The wound margins are refreshed. The wound edges are stitched. Removal of stitches after eight days. The soldier smokes a cigarette after recovering.
Ruins in the city of Livorno, Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. Aerial views of damaged harbor of Livorno after Allied bombings. Ruins in Livorno. A view of sunken ships. A damaged pier. Soldiers walk over to a parapet. Ruins in the city. Three soldiers walking along a road carry a full size mannequin dummy of a person.
A United States invasion convoy off the coast of Salerno, Italy during World War II. An oiler AP (transport ship) anchored. DD (destroyers) and APs underway. 40mm gun fires from the ship.
A United States invasion convoy off the coast of Salerno, Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from Salerno shore. A DD (destroyer) underway fires. Flak in the sky. A U.S. soldier aboard a ship looks through binoculars.
A United States invasion convoy off the coast of Salerno, Italy during World War II. Two DDs (destroyers) underway at sea. Flak in the sky.
A United States invasion convoy off the coast of Salerno, Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from Salerno in the background. A DD (destroyer) underway. A PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat heads for a beach. The DD fires a 5 inch gun.
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