GENERAL EISENHOWER VISITS NAPLES AND VOLTURNO FRONT Part 1

Description

Summary: MS, Gen Dwight D Eisenhower arrives at airport, is greeted by Lt Gen. Mark W Clark. MS, Gen Clark and Eisenhower cross ponton bridge, talk with British officers. MS, CU, Clark, Eisenhower, Mac Gen Lucian K Truscott, and Maj Gen John P Lucas inspect positions on the front lines. MS, Gen Eisenhower talking to, group of enlisted men. MS, Gen Eisenhower with American soldier and war dog. General, gets into jeep and drives away. U S RANGERS AND 155MM GUNS.: Salerno, Italy: 09/18/1943: MSs, Rangers fire 105mm Howitzer. Various shots, Rangers on patrol through woods. MSs, Rangers firing 81mm mortar. CU, soldier with handie- talkie radio. MSs, CUs, Rangers load and fire 155mm gun. LSS, shells explode on mountainside. 45Th DIV ST GIORGIO.: Italy: American truck convoy carries soldiers through St Giorgio. MSs, M-10 motor carriage passes through. MS, American officers and enlisted men study map. MS, Signal Corps cameraman under machine- gun fire run along ditch at side of road. MS, Brig Gen Stafford, 34th Div, and staff in 1/4 ton trucks fording shallow stream. MSs, American engineers with bulldozer clearing wreckage in Avellino.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities