North African Campaign in World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces fliers of the 47th Bomb Group, , assemble for mission briefing outside a large tent at Allied airfield in North Africa, in World War 2. They look at aerial photos of targets. Red Cross women hand out refreshments to fliers. Crew members climbing, via top canopy, into an A-20 solid nose model Havoc bomber (called Boston, in British service). The aircraft is named "Boomerang." Numerous bombs are painted on its side for missions completed. An A-20 (with glass bombardier nose) is starting engines, as fireguard stands nearby. It has 38 bombs painted on its fuselage. A-20s taxiing for takeoff. One, of the 97th Bomb Squadron, with number 80 painted on its tail, takes off. A parked A-20, number 72, of the 86th Bomb Squadron. An instantaneous glimpse of several British Spitfire aircraft parked on the field. The bombers are seen flying in formation overhead. Closeup of one inflight. Aerial view of target area below. Waist gunner firing downward from a B-26 aircraft.
U.S. troops of the 5th Army, with Sherman tanks, advance along a road on outskirts of Rome, Italy. Combat cinematographer is photographed by another one. Small Italian wedding party walks past parked American Sherman tanks. Italian civilians crowd around a tank as an American crew member tosses candy to them. The wedding party walks past a parked jeep. Lieutenant General Mark Clark and some of his staff walk along the road. A Major General confers with another officer. General Clark climbs into a jeep with the Major General and a Brigadier General. A Sergeant is seen in a field, where a fire burns. Two soldiers, of the 5th Army, tie messages to carrier pigeons and set them loose.
The Italian Campaign in World War Two. Allied gunners firing a heavy gun from under a camouflage net. Allied officers gather on beach. Buildings on palisades behind them. An officer discusses plans while referring to a map of Italy, mounted on a board. Seated officers watch and listen to the briefing.
The Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. Allied gun crews, under camouflage nets, fire heavy artillery against German positions at Monte Cassino. Views of the ruined town. A Sherman tank parked inside a partially destroyed building. A U.S. soldier picks through rubble in a gutted building.
Film opens showing several Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers, of the USAAF 93rd Bombardment Group, taxiing on the airfield at RAF Station Hardwick, in England, during World War 2. Numerous views of United States B-24 Liberator aircraft taking off, landing, and flying in formation over the aerodrome. Various examples of nose art and airplane names are seen. Among these are: a B-24 named 'Shoot Luke'; and another named 'Ball of Fire Junior'. A third B-24 is named 'Heinie Hunter'.
German newsreel about the Invasion of Normandy region of France in World War 2. English narration overlaid on the newsreel by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. A German soldier looks through binoculars. Artillery units move forward. North American bomber flies over. German Anti Aircraft batteries in action. Bombers drop bombs. Wreckage in the city of Caen. German pursuit planes fly to break U.S. plane formation. Ruins in the city following bombing by Allied air forces. French refugee civilians leaving the bombed city. German divisions of tanks and mobile artillery underway. Allied armed divisions air troopers and paratroopers captured. U.S. Sherman tanks knocked out. Bullet holes in the tanks. German troops advance. Germans soldiers fire rifles, machine guns and rockets.
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