12TH AAFCCU BOMBS OVER ITALY Part 1

Description

Summary: Flight of B-24s of 340th Bomb Group over Amanitea, Crotone, Catanzar Corleto, Potenza, Brenner Pass rail line, Trento, Bolzano and Castelnuovo: B-24s over targets, dropping bombs, bursts. MS, ground crew servicing B-24 in captured German revetment. FIFTH ARMY LANDS IN ITALY.: Gulf of Salerno: 09/6-15/1945. VS, battleships, flak, landing craft, AA guns, bomb hit on US ship, transfer of wounded from LCVP to ship, trucks come off landing barge, other beach activity. LS, silhouette, US vessel burns in harbor. Silhouette, US troops landing; in fg a downed German fighter plane.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities