BRITISH BATTLE AT SALERNO, ITALY ; FIGHTING IN THE HILLS OF SALERNO, ITALY ; BRITISH SNIPERS - TOWARDS NAPLES, ITALY Part 1

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 1740 ADC SOURCE: British Combat Film Card 1 of 2 1740-1FILM: Arch DN & APC MP, 845¹ ea Silent BRITISH BATTLE AT SALERNO, ITALY 23 Sept 1943 MS, unidentified truck burns on road. LS, MS, explosion under tank. MS, British soldiers with fixed bayonets and guns at ready run down road past Mark IV tank. LS, British infantry company march past wrecked bldgs. Seq: CU, British soldier pokes dynamite charge into hole of wall with broom- stick. LS, winding street; engineers in fg set off dynamite charge. LS, house crumbles to earth. MS, bulldozers clear debris-covered street. VS, vehicular traffic moves thru narrow pathways cleared by bulldozer. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LTC 1, NY ERB/lzw Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV+210 Signal Corps ADC 1740 111 SOURCE: British Combat Film Card 2 of 2 ADC 1740-FILM: Arch DN & APC MP, 845' ea Silent FIGHTING IN THE HILLS OF SALERNO, ITALY LS, mountain ridge, shell smoke rises from section of mountain. MS, Basuto (Bantus from Basutoland, S Africa ) troops carry ammunition on road and up steep mountain trail. CU, feet climb trail. CU, Basuto soldier. MS, Basuto soldiers rest and eat grapes. CU, Basuto rifleman fires thru underbrush. BRITISH SNIPERS TOWARDS NAPLES, ITALY CU, British soldiers with rifles at ready in window of house. (Ints). LS, soldiers in single file march down battle-scarred road and climb mountain trails. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/lzw Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities