GEN MARK W. CLARK Part 2

Description

Summary: GEN MARK W CLARK. ALLIED ARMIES MARCH ON ROME (US Army Sig C Pictures).(Sound) Generals Dwight D Eisenhower and Clark, and Admiral Hewitt inspecting operations on front. Cut-ins, howitzers firing. FS, Clark running across road. Tanks on move. Tank towing long tom. Army nurse picking baby out of crib. Child was born during battle and mother was injured. MS, mother and child on litter. ALLIED PUSH ON THE MARCH TOWARD ROME Damaged ships in harbor. Italians getting water from sewers. Anti-Fascist Italians and Jewish refugees receive canned food. Little boy getting stack of canned food. Street fighting by British in Italian town. British crew firing mortar. AVs, plane dropping bombs. AVs, bombs striking terrain. Long tom and howitzers firing from underneath camouflaged positions. Soldiers in advance. WAR IN ITALY (SILENT) Gen Clark arriving in liaison plane. Soldiers working at water purification equipment on banks of river. Italian men on line being held back by Italian police as lines begin to break. British troops coming off LCI and LST. Wreckage on shore; prisoners being brought in. German prisoners in trucks at pier being guarded by American soldiers. Prisoners going aboard ship. HS, prisoners on deck. Gen Mark Clark takes Gen Eisenhower on tour of Italian front. Gen Clark with Sec of Treasury, 0 Henry Morgentha on tour of front. ML&MS, Pres Franklin D Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England looking at pyramids in Egypt. Scenes of Pres Franklin D Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill looking at pyramids in Egypt. Scenes of Pres Roosevelts visit to North African front. Gen Mark W Clark and Gen Dwight D Eisenhower in several scenes. CUs, Pres Franklin D Roosevelt decorating a few soldiers including Clark. Clark at review with Pres Roosevelt. MS, Gen Eisenhower having sandwich with Pres Roosevelt in car. More scenes, Eisenhower with Clark on Italian inspection tour.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities