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CASSINO BATTLE AND BOMBING
220469 03:09:22 -
03:17:09 1940s SD B/W V-E Day Special
Times
Square night celebrations superimposed with headlines. Cinema marquee with
sign Wars End - Nazis
Out!. Hitler rally and
speech. Animated map showing
German invasions. Hitler smiling. Burning town in Belgium? Holland? Blind man walks with stick. British troops evacuated at
Dunkirk. Churchill in street with
others.
03:10:47
London burning.
03:11:14
Stalingrad Tanks and explosion,
German troops in snow, street fighting, German POWs. 03:11:30 FDR and Churchill Atlantic Charter Conference. Troopship full of US troops.
03:11:56
Tunisia: desert fighting and German POWs.
03:12:13
Italy - Abbey of Cassino bombarded. Rome and crowd at Colosseum /
Coliseum. Pope Pius at St Peters
cathedral and crowds below.
03:12:40
H1908-13 06:46:52 - 06:56:25 1943 SIL B/W [WWII - 1943, Monte Cassino
Monestery Hill]
MSs,
jeep & truck traffic over Bailey Bridge & along small road next to
destroyed highway.
06:47:20 Road sign for Roma, Cassino, Formia;
many small signs. Sign: Roma 192 km, Napoli 38 km. Thru Cessa. MCU, numerous road signs.
06:48:11 MSs & CU men place ration boxes on
pack boards. US soldiers pack food
& ammunition on mules. Man puts pack on w/ many jerry cans behind.
06:49:23 MSs, CU, mules and men carry supplies
along steep, muddy, mountain trail. Jeep tries to climb muddy hillside road, several angles.
06:53:15 MS soldiers in advance outpost eat.
06:54:21 GIs receive mail.
06:54:38 Mules & GIs on mountainside
trail. Medic w/ backpack.
06:55:34 MS, soldiers carry body of US soldier
on litter down mountain.
06:56:01 MS mule train atop high mountain ridge.
220417 11:17:46 -
11:31:01 1943? 1944? SD B/W How Good Is A Gun?
Demonstrates
the firing of light carbines M-1 rifles, BAR's, machine guns,
mortars, antitank guns, bazooka, 57, and a 105-mm howitzer. 155 rifle.
11:18:10 Valley, war-torn village in what was
Nazi occupied country, rubble. US
troops in group resting & smoking, eating outside houses. Talking about how good the guns are
that they are using.
11:19:51 Men march into post theater in
barracks; inside w/ movie playing in front. Instructional film showing firepower of light carbine - bullets thru Nazi
helmets on models in woods. Soldier firing M-1 rifle shows how bullet can pass thru tree or wall
& into target. Browning automatic
demonstrated cuts down tree. 30
calibre machine gun demonstrated. 60mm mortar demonstrated. 81mm mortar laying smoke. Bazooka fires on tank. 37mm
anti-tank gun demonstrated. 57mm.
11:22:46 105 Howitzer demonstrated. Long Tom 155 big gun firing. End of demonstration film sequence.
11:23:32 Troops pull artillery into position on
Italian front over mountains & muddy roads. Shows a "Long Tom" w/ Bellowing Bitch painted on
barrel pulled thru heavy mud. Howitzers & Sherman tanks & other military equipment moving
up. Troops on mountainside prepare
to shell village.
11:25:32 240-mm howitzer pulled by two armoured
tractors, is assembled & then shells an Italian town in mountains w/ 300lb
shells. Guns firing. Tanks move
into valley (Monte Cassino?) & fire from beneath olive trees. Good montage artillery firing.
Mortars. Battle scenes as troops
move forward.
11:28:29 Italian civilians watch outside
town. Infantry follow tanks into
the valley. Shows troops entering
the town; mine detectors used; fighting in the streets / snipers. Civilians leave caves to welcome US
troops & receive food. Waving. Little girl w/ US
soldier. CU Children.
H1683-18 11:32:03 - 11:39:18 1943
(?); 1944; Sd B/W [WWII - 1944 (?), German
Documentary: Fallschirmjager -
Sturmsodatern Dur Luft] R2 of 2 (paratroopers)
Men board planes, over water. Paratroopers inside plane prepare to jump, jump along coastal mountains
& descending, landing in farm fields. Move to cover coastal road. Explosion in front of soldiers.
11:33:13 Montage: Victor Emmanuel
monument; newspapers superimposed over Coliseum & street scenes. Italian troops on vehicles thru
streets; King & General Badoglio (?) pictures taken down; German officers
in field reviewing troops in camouflage, w/ other officers on airfield.
11:33:44 Night, German troops
along road.
11:33:52 Day & troops into
back of trucks w/ rifles & ammunition, POV down road in Italian (?)
mountains; CU truck driver; vehicle slowly past officers talking on road by
olive (?) trees. Pan German planes
on field, soldiers checking weapons on ground, men starting motors, torops into
planes & military gliders pulled off by single engine small planes.
11:34:43 Air to air of gliders in
flight.
11:34:50 Trucks w/ troops along
mountain roads, POV. GOOD.
11:35:15 Trucks w/ troops,
motorcycle w/ sidecar & soldier slowly thru deserted village & walking
w/ weapons down street. Gran Sasso
raid. Cable car wires across
Apennine Mountain top valley, DSF 230 gliders circling overhead &
landing. Soldiers out thru top
& run across rocky plateau w/ peaks beyond. Large building / Campo Imperatore Hotel w/ gliders in field
in front. MCU Troops on field
telephones talking. POV on cable
car. CUs gliders, building on top
of peak.
11:36:19 12Sep43 MCU Mussolini w/ soldiers & officers following out of
building, posing, smiling; boarding small plane (Fieseler Fi 156 C-3/Trop
Storch STOL) & fastening seatbelt, troops wave goodbye. POV taking off & shadow of plane
over rocky mountainside. Aerial of
tail of plane w/ swastika. Small
plane landing & Mussolini out, salutes. Mussolini into larger German twin-engine bomber &
taxiing across field. Plane
overhead.
11:37:39 Nazi military tri-motor
plane taxiing to stop. Mussolini
out of (different) tri-motor plane & greeted by Hitler, shaking hands.
11:37:57 Pan w/ title: Cassino over German troops firing from
behind barriers & rocks. Destroyed large concret & brick monastery building. Watching from another peak &
fortifications as clouds of smoke from bombing rises. CU soldiers watching, waiting. MCU of explosions; firing machines guns, crawling out; given
orders to move up & running from building. CU firing mortars. Tank moving around & firing.
11:39:00 Paratroopers, CUs. preparing to jump. The End.
WW2; Operation Eiche; Resuce; Special Forces;
NOTE: May include Lt. Col. Otto
Skorzeny, Major Harald Mors, Lt. Count Otto von Berlepsch in rescue party.
NOTE: German paratroopers took up
position in ruins of Monte Cassino abbey, 17Feb44.
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H1609-02 12:10:17 - 12:19:35 1944 SD B/W [WWII - 1944, German Newsreel: Schulz funeral, concluded; Troops to
Eastern Front & Fighting; Fighting on Monte Cassino]
German military at funeral for General Schulz w/ General Mannstein placing wreath. Rifles fire salute; CU medals.
12:10:39 Map of eastern front;
passenger train past w/ German troops. Troops off train, buy food, wash, shower & shave on platform. Leave as people wave goodbye. Train across snowy landscape. Soldier off train w/ bags. Painted sign on building: Urlauber GD hier melden! gegenuber. Troops enter building, given papers,
board trucks & leave across muddy roads. Issued ammunition. Riding on sleds & getting soup in woods, eating & looking at
picture of child. Playful fight in
snow.
12:13:02 German troops in trenches
& tanks advance on snowy Russian front. Troops w/ maps. March across snow in camouflage suits. Bodies in snow; tanks advance; troops clear mine fields. Artillery firing, buildings
burning. Destroyed tanks, trucks
& equipment.
12:15:09 Map of Italy. Monte Cassino w/ German troops in
woods. Planes overhead & bombing in area w/ explosions
& clouds of smoke. Germans
moving across logs over stream; up hillside & firing machine guns 7
rifles. Firing grenades from
rifles. Dead Americans; American
prisoner taken, walked down hillside & questioned / interrogated. Fighting around Cassino.
12:17:38 German artillery firing
from mountaintop & hillside into valley.
12:18:03 German bombers take off,
in daylight flight, aerial of many in formation; night raid of London &
explosions & fires burning. The End.
WW2 Fighting; Battles; Winter;
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220471 08:38:18 -
08:40:40 1944 SD B/W Title: Movietone News
08:38:27 Nazis Force Bombing Of Monastery
08:38:32 Title: Allied armies reluctantly attack ancient Benedictine shrine
after enemy converts it into a fortress in attempt to slow up march on Rome.
08:38:45 Various views Monte Cassino monastery
on top of hill; from below & aerial. View of town of Cassino at base.
08:38:58 Allies firing guns in fields around;
explosions & smoke from castle. Aerials of Cassino village after. Leaflets in shells fired to monastery. Planes fly overhead. Explosions & shelling of abbey at Monte Cassino
intercut
w/ CU of guns firing. Planes w/
contrails overhead. Many large
explosions of bombs.
220473 11:16:32 -
11:18:05 1944 SD B/W Tragedy Of
War (Italian Refugees)
11:16:37 Title: Cassino Refugees.
11:16:40 LS & MCUs Civilian women, children & old men walking w/ bags &
boxes thru woods & along mountain road, escaping ruins after battle. Mother and small child. CU feet wrapped in rags. Enter ruined house in nearby town. Child into house. CU kid on parents shoulders.
11:17:07 Title: Anzio Beachhead.
11:17:10 Families of refugees on road in carts
w/ belongings. Ox-pulled
cart. CU crying child hugged by
another. Refugees evacuated on
American army trucks & onto LSTs to Naples. POV from ship. Families aboard ships eating. View of Mt. Vesuvius over top of army
trucks on deck.
11:17:55 MCU Refugees on board in sunshine;
waving from shipboard & disembarking w/ belongings in Naples.
WWII;
WW2; Europe; Italy;
220786-09 01:16:41 -
01:20:26 1944 SD B/W [WWII -
1944, Germans in Italy Defend Cassino and Monte Cassino Abbey
Map showing
Italy. Kesselring & officers,
Kesselring into car. Observation
posts, men looking through binoculars and on field telephone. Gun crew.
01:17:40 MS Pan Courtyards, stairways, etc. of
Monte Cassino Abbey. German
officers with monks, men remove art treasures, books, etc watched by local
population. Treasures are brought
to Castel Sant Angelo in Rome.
01:18:40 LS Cassino Monastery before U.S.
attack. U.S. bombs burst in
Cassino Monastery, ruins, bomb damage.
01:19:33 German officers with Abbot of Cassino
in car.
01:19:57 Pan Ruins, bombed buildings of Castel
Gandolfo. Local civilians go
through wreckage. Body carried out
on stretcher.
1944;
Monte Cassino pre-bombing; German newsreel.
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220786-12 01:37:14 -
01:48:11 1944 SD B/W Made to
show happy and prosperous living in the New Order.
Dutch
workers presented w/ symbolic shovels to work for the New Germany
01:37:51 Greek Catholic religious ceremony in
Serbia. Serbian national
dance in courtyard marks end of Slav festival.
01:38:27 Yacht race off Malaga in Spain.
01:38:38 Czech soldiers demonstrate skiing in
the Carpathian mountains.
01:38:50 French fishing boats set sail under
German torpedo boat protection. Commentary suggests protection is to prevent the French from escaping
across Channel. Twin anti-aircraft
guns fire at allied bomber.
01:40:12 On board French fishing boat, herring
sorted and salted. Drying fish in
ovens.
01:40:32 Trieste - Italian army celebrate
Catholic mass on parade ground. Men swear allegiance to the flag.
01:41:16 Southern Italian front. German re-inforcements moving up. Provisions taken by donkey to mountain
positions. Bread taken into foxhole. German artillery.
01:42:27 OSS commentary says the following
footage in the German newsreel is religious propaganda. Monte Cassino before bombing. Ruins of Abbey at Cassino following
allied bombing. OSS commentary
says the Abbey was being used as an observation post for German military purposes. Monk, Abbot of Monte Cassino, w/ German
officers.
01:43:30 Castel Gandolfo in ruins, OSS
commentary says that the German commentary on the newsreels said there were
15,000 women and children refugees lost in the raid. Bodies of dead children on roadside. Stretcher carried from rubble.
01:44:02
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220786-13 01:48:21 -
01:58:12 1944 SD B/W Hitler
confers in Berlin w/ leaders of Moravia and Bohemia.
01:49:17 Admiral Horthy off train, met in Berlin
by Hitler and Ribbentrop. In
offices Admiral Horthy w/ Hitler & others including Hungarian Foreign
Minister Sztojay. (To discuss
occupation of Hungary)
01:50:22 German troops in Hungary - entering
Budapest in military vehicles watched by locals. Tanks down street. Schoolboys smiling and shaking hands w/ German troops. Kids climb on tanks & trucks. Troops looking over river w/
binoculars.
01:51:27 Hungary - military parade. General von Kleist decorates Cossack
cavalry who have been fighting the
Russians. Cavalry ride past &
demonstrate charge.
01:52:35 Eastern Front - map of Russia. General Busch at celebrations for his
40th year in German army.
01:53:05 Ukraine - Pripet marshes; German
infantry moving thru wooded area,
take cover in trees, snow on ground, grenades fired. Stukas overhead bomb marshes.
01:54:25 Italy Campaign map. Street sign Cassino, ruins of Cassino
following allied bombing. German
troops on motorcycle & side car down road. General Kesselring and Heidrich conferring. Battle scenes, artillery, rockets.
01:57:23 Captured US film shows General Clark
& allied troops in street fighting in Italian town. Big guns firing, explosion.
1944
ca; German newsreels;
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220786-14 01:58:24 -
02:07:43 1944 SD B/W Battle for
Cassino
Hills
around Cassino. Relief model of
area used to show tactics and positions. German observer with binoculars superimposed over model to show enemy
vantage point.
02:01:00 Hills around Monte Cassino. CU aircraft propellers turning. Warning leaflets telling civilian
population to clear the area packed into ammunition shells. Camouflaged 105 mm Howitzers fire shells containing
warnings.
02:01:45 18Feb44 A-20 planes take off. AV B-25, B-17 bombers in formation flight. AV bombs dropping. Huge explosion as monastery hit. Artillery firing. Bombs drop around Cassino.
02:02:39 Model showing positions following
bombardment. Animation shows
German positions as moving swastikas.
02:03:47 Troops and M-4 Sherman tanks moving up,
ground crews work on bombers. Big
guns 154 Long Toms moved into position. 240 mm Howitzer moved into place. Sound plotting equipment laid, holes dug & microphones in watertight
bags put into holes. Sequence
shows how sound plotting is recorded & relayed to plotters who use the
information to locate position of enemy guns on terrain map.
02:06:02
15 Mar44 Second bombing - aircraft
in formation flight, bombs dropped. Explosions as bombs hit. Big guns fired.
02:07:03 US troops attempt to enter
Cassino. Bomb damage, rubble acts
as barricade.
02:07:21 Model map shows positions after 2nd
bombardment. Explosion. Newspaper headlines re Big Drive on in
Italy.
A20;
B25; B17; M4; 1944; Italy Campaign; Fighting; Battles;
220791 09:04:24 -
09:10:07 1944 Sd b/w Fighting Near Cassino
Map of
Italy. Antiaircraft guns and artillery fired at night near Cassino. Map of Cassino. Good night firing.
Day -
mortars fired. Various shots soldiers in trenches and under fire.
09:05:56 Allied troops surrendering - white
flag. Prisoners of war, mostly New
Zealanders marched away. German
officer in mountains with binoculars. Mountain tops. Ruins of Monte Cassino.
09:06:32
German big guns - barrel raised. Gun loaded and fired.
09:07:02 Ruins of monastery, german troops move
about the ruins. British bombers
fly ovrhead. Bombs explode, Ack-ack guns fired. Planes fly through flack. Plane shot down in flames. Germans fire mortars from ruins of
Cassino. Germans prepare
grenades. German soldiers in
shelter watching explosions outside, small Nazi flag flying.
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200551 09:01:09 -
09:01:57 1944 SD B/W AMG Rescues War Victims in
Italy
Italian
refugees rescued from Cassino and Anzio. Refugees, mostly women and children struggle along road with
belongings. Woman with rags round
feet.
09:01:30
Military trucks. Troops giving
tins of food to starving refugees. CU small crying boy. More
crying children. Military trucks
with refugees boarding landing craft which will take them to Naples.
200551 09:12:42 -
09:15:13 1944 SD B/W Advance on Rome
Unusual
Universal titles with allied flags.
Sunset
on the Italian Front. Allied
artillery firing, night shots. Day
- French troops and pack animals move forward under smokescreen. Gustav Line. Little Cassino shelled, German prisoners of War. Ruins of Castel Forte. French and American troops in the ruins
of Castel Forte. British troops
advance, firing big guns. German
POWs. AVs Abandoned ruins of Monte Cassino and town below.
09:14:26
5th and 8th armies advance. Through Scauri. Wrecked
German equipment and dead Germans. Refugees.
09:14:56
Allied planes bombing behind enemy lines.
200551 09:17:38
- 09:19:17 1944 SD B/W Allies
Close in on Rome
Ruins
of Cassino, signs re mines and boobytraps. Damaged tanks. Looking up at ruins of Monte Cassino. Army leaders with large map confer, Generals Alexander, Truscott and
Clark. Tanks advance. German prisoners of war marched down
road.
09:18:42
Captured German secret weapons, The Death Wagon which is radio controlled
armoured vehicle carrying explosives. Human torpedo on beach near Anzio, young captured German sailor. Americans try to make suicide bomb
explode, it doesnt.
Wartime
inventions
220806 10:14:21 -
10:20:46 1944 SIL B/W [Monte Cassino]
Feb44
GV
Monte Cassino area. Plane
formation flies overhead. Explosions on mountain. Valley - camouflaged guns fired. More explosions on mountainside.
220806 10:20:46 -
10:27:53 1944 SIL B/W [Monte Cassino] - some good
aerials
Feb44
US
troops on mountainside and vehicles on roadside. Aerial Monte Cassino Abbey. Ammunition. Troops resting. Destruction on road. Troops and vehicle on road. Huge piles of empty shells. Aerial village. Tanks and soldiers resting on
tanks. Troops past
village women washing laundry. Good aerial village. Aerials monastery.
Troops
on road. Destruction
in valley.
10:26:15
Troops searching dead German? Pan over valley.
220806 10:28:02 -
10:34:12 1944 SIL B/W [Monte Cassino - assault on
monastery]
Feb44
Explosions
on mountain. Abbey on mountain
top, explosions nearby and flak. Allied troops in valley. Firing guns and stacking ammunition.
220806 10:34:22 -
10:41:56 1944 SIL B/W [Monte Cassino] - good GVs
of area
Feb44
Aerials
village. Troops and villagers on
road. LS village. Monte Cassino
Monastery incl. aerials. Allied troops firing guns in valley and
on road. Tanks. Assault on monastery - explosions and
flak. Clearing huge piles of empty
shells.
High
altitude aerials of monastery and village. Mark Clark with troops putting hands up. Men resting on tanks. Men sleeping in ditches by
roadside. Troops walk past village
women washing laundry. GVs valley
and monastery. Troops on mountainside
keeping watch.
220806 10:42:08 -
10:45:48 1944 SD B/W [Italy - Allied fighting -
mountain - snow]
Jan?44
Aerials
of snowy mountain region
surrounding Monte Cassino. Village
of Monte Cassino surrounded by mountains. Vehicles and troops arrive in deep snow. Italian troops with mules into village carrying supplies and
unloaded. Wounded carried on
stretchers. British troops
put on makeshift white snow camouflage suits and climb uphill.
Supposedly
Monte Cassino but looks quite different because of snow
(Narration
is cut up and not usable)
220806 10:45:58 -
10:49:49 1944 SD B/W [Monte Cassino bombing]
Planes
fly overhead in formation. Mountain and valley bombed.
Sound.
220806 10:49:58 -
10:51:30 1944 SIL B/W [Views Monte Cassino]
Aerials
Cassino area. British troops
firing guns in valley. Village in ruins and
craters. British soldiers smile at
camera.
220806 10:51:44 -
11:01:54 1944 SIL B/W [Monte Cassino - pilot
briefing & aerials]
Studying
aerial photograph of Cassino area. Pilots resting with hot drinks -joking with nurses. Pilots get into planes and takeoff. Flying above Cassino and strafing of
valley seen from plane. Additional
planes takeoff and in flight filmed from above.
Bombarded
Cassino seen from ground. Plane
formations seen from below. Good
takeoffs. Troops firing on
mountainside. Sign mines. Explosion dangerously near
soldier. LS explosions in
valley and on mountain. Ruins.
10:57:57 excellent shot POV plane diving towards
flames coming out of bombarded monastery. Soldiers digging graves in cemetery. GVs valley 7 assault. GVs valley and mountains. Troops climb uphill and survey valley;
firing towards valley. Patrol
climbs down towards valley amidst fire.
220806 11:15:50 -
11:25:05 1944 SIL B/W [Cassino Bombardment]
Monastery
bombarded. Firing big guns. Soldier in empty, wrecked
building. GVs valley and vehicles
on road. Snowy mountain. Loading shells into truck. Shelling of castle? Wrecked hangar and ruined houses. Italian women on road carrying bundles
on head escorted by US troops (refugees).
220975 12:00:14 -
12:12:17 1944 / 1947 SD COL Thunderbolt [R1
Pt1]
Dirs.
William Wyler, John Sturges, Lester Koenig, Gail Kubik
Made
1944, rel. 1947?
USAF
pilot in cockpit; VS cameras fitted in vars parts of fighter plane [P-47
Thunderbolt]. MS James Stewart
introduces film by reading telegram from Commanding Officer of USAAF Gen. Carl
Spatz.
12:02:04: Pan across Italian harbour w/ bombed
buildings; VS Italians in rubbled streets w/ horse and carts; family inc.
mother and child w/ belongings at side of Kimble Bridge as vehicles pass. Children among ruins; rotting corpse in
debris.
12:03:10: AVs Italian landscape inc. mountains,
rivers and waterfall; hill towns; bombed towns, railways etc. Zoom map of Corsica. VS residents; Bar Napoleon. Graves of German soldiers. VS mechanics prepare planes at Alto Air
Base; narr introduces pilots as they get up, wash from helmets, shave, comb
hair, brush teeth.
12:08:10: AV Alto Air Base. Men on watchtower; US flag at
half-mast. Pilots enter tent for
briefing. Lt. Col. in girlfriends
nursing hat stands at map; Animated map of Italy inc. Gustaf Line w/ Anzio,
Cassino. AV Monte Cassino in
ruins. Lt. Gen Acker; Maj. Gen
Cannon; Brig. Gen Savile. Operation Strangle animated maps. AVs destroyed bridges.
WWII. Italian Campaign. Aviation.
H1862-10 02:42:17 - 02:58:55 1944 ca SIL COL [WWII - 1944 -
US AAF Color Home Movies, Europe]
02:42:19 Paratroops dropping from C-47 at RAF
North Witham, England training area; landing on farm field.
02:42:49 Title: D-Day minus One. C-47s w/ Special Striping. C47s, parked.
02:43:11 Title: Number One Plane of the Invasion. First to take off, first to drop troops.
02:43:16 Lead plane marking, no. 293098,
parked. CU. Starting to taxi.
02:43:39 Title: Crew of No. One Ship, Pilot - Lt Col Crouch. Pedone - Culp.
02:43:44 MCU Pilot Joel Crouch, Capt Vita Pedone, Capt William Culp &
two crew chiefs joking beside C-47;boarding aircraft.
02:44:46 Maj J.L. Sweetman (donor of film)
beside C-47 & boarding aircraft. MS C-47 taxiing to left. Control tower at North Witham. 05Jun44.
02:45:19
Title: H-Hour minus three. Crouch w/ first two paratroop officers
to drop in Normandy. Walk along
narrow road, pose. Member of
Pathfinder group emerging from bushes in jump gear & blackened makeup.
02:45:56 Title: Loading for the takeoff H-?. Pathfinders lined up to board C-47 as Lt Col Crouch rides
motor scooter thru scene. C-47
crews pose shortly before departure in low evening light.
02:47:04 Title: Take-off of No. One. Actual start of the Invasion! 9:54 pm, June 5
02:47:09 C-47 takeoff climb at twilight / dusk
under cloud cover.
02:47:25 Title: Back to Italy July 13, Stopover at Casablanca. Street sign w/ mileage to Washington,
Paris, New York, London, Berlin.
02:47:37 Three Arab sidewalk entertainers
playing, dancing. Pan across city
/ government buildings & plaza.
02:48:13 Title: We fly over the ruins of Monte Cassino Abbey. Dark.
02:48:20 Title: Scenes in Rome. St Angelo Bridge & castle. Statues. Pan of
cityscape. St Peters
Cathedral. Sign: Neutral Territory of Vatican State, No
admission to Military Vehicles. All arms forbidden. (in
Italian and English). Pan St.
Peters colonnade & fountain.
02:49:57 Ext. 322 Service Group sign on stone
wall. Unid. officers posing &
clowning in Rome. MCUs.
02:52:40 Title: Drying Out after Cyclone hits our camp. Pan over men in underwear drying
clothes in tent city at Maragliana, Italy (some underexposed). B/W Mess tent, showers, playing cards.
02:55:40 Title: The Forum. Various shots.
02:56:12 Title: The Pantheon. Tilt up. Title & pix:
Fountain of Trevi... Shots of
Colosseum, ancient gate, 02:57:36 Title: Palazzo Venezia,
Mussolinis palace & famous balcony. Jeeps & traffic, flag on pole.
02:57:50 LS Victor Emanuel monument.
02:58:02 Title: Grave of Keats, Shelleys Grave... Grave marker.
02:58:12 Title: Invasion of Southern France, D-Day minus One - The
briefing. Personnel gathered for
outdoor briefing in morning / afternoon light.
02:58:41 Title: Back to England Aug 23 44. Finally home to the USA via boat ?? 1944.
02:58:50 Statue of Liberty; Manhattan skyline as seen from New York
harbor. (BRIEF).
WW2;
05Jun44; 23Aug44; Airmen; Air Crew; Military Airplanes; D-Day Invasion;
Normandy Invasion;
H1149-01 02:00:09 - 02:11:05 1944; SD B/W [WWII - 1944, German
Newsreel, Monte Cassino, Italy; Vatican; Russian Front]
Titles.
02:00:30 New recruits in the Dutch Workers
Service presented w/ symbolic shovels to work for New Germany
02:00:49 Greek Orthodox (aka Greek Catholic)
religious ceremony in Serbia. Serbian national dance in courtyard marks end of Slav festival.
02:01:24 Yacht race off Malaga in Spain.
02:01:33 Czech soldiers demonstrate skiing in
High Tatras mountains; officers watch.
02:01:47 French fishing boats set sail, leaving
harbor; under German motor torpedo boat protection. Commentary suggests PT boat protection is to prevent the
French from escaping across Channel. Twin anti-aircraft guns on larger ship (GOOD CUs) fire at Allied bomber.
02:03:10 On board French fishing boat, herring
sorted & salted. Drying fish
in ovens.
02:03:27 Trieste - Italian army celebrate
Catholic mass on parade ground. Men swear allegiance to flag. MCU Officer speaking (MOS), kissing flag.
02:04:10 Map of Italy & Corsica. Southern Italian front. German reenforcements moving up,
supplies. Provisions by donkey
along ridge, to mountain positions. Bread taken into foxhole. German artillery & planes overhead.
02:05:16 OSS commentary says following footage
in German newsreel is religious propaganda. Monte Cassino monastery before bombing. Bombing & ruins of Abbey at
Cassino. OSS commentary says the
Abbey was being used as an observation post for German military purposes. Monk, Abbot of Monte Cassino walking w/
German officers, into car, arriving Vatican City. Sign.
02:06:29 Castel Gandolfo in ruins, OSS commentary
says German commentary said there were 15,000 women & children refugees
lost in the raid. Bodies of dead
children on roadside. Stretcher
carried from rubble of village.
02:06:58 Map, Eastern Front, Northern sector w/
Leningrad. German vehicles retreating
on snow covered roads. Bombs towed
behind vehicles to blow bridges after crossing (scorched earth). Burning buildings; & Germans
exploding buildings.
02:08:07 German soldiers smoking pipe, eating,
drinking wine from bottle - officer with Iron Cross. CU. 02:08:32 Troops in snowy foxholes. Heavy German tanks of the panther type. German soldier on field telephone. Artillery & explosions
02:09:22 Map showing Moscow & Kirovograd -
German armored division makes counter attack. Armor & troops dressed in white move out across
snow. Artillery fired. Field telephone. Large rocket guns fired, good shots. Equipment wreckage.
02:10:52 Long line of Russian prisoners of war.
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221357 22:52:27 -
22:53:05 1945 SD B/W Gen. Stilwell Gives DSC To
Heros Sister
Ben Grauer
announcing. Small wooden house w/
military & civilians clustered around as Japanese-American famliy stands w/
soldier beside. Kenzuo Masuda of
442nd died at Cassino, Italy. Stilwell pins onto sister Mary Masuda. Family holds picture; sister pins medal on mother.
Military
Awards; Distinguished Service Cross;
H1662-02 01:08:01 - 01:17:04 1945; SD B/W CATALOGUING INCOMPLETE
Soldiers
fire from foxholes, a tank moves up thru jungle; BAR's and bazookas are fired.
Japanese prisoners are taken and flamethrowers are employed. Hand cranked warning horn / klaxon.
01:11?? Camouflage is removed from an
antiaircraft gun in Italy.
01:12:46 Planes are shot down in a dog
fight. AA guns fire on German
bombers / planes. Shows a downed
German plane. Planes bomb enemy
targets including Monte Cassino (GOOD).
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