10TH MOUNTAIN DIV, CASTEL D'AIANO, (?) ITALY Part 2

Description

Signal Corps ADC 1774 111 DURCH: AFCP (0-1102) ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 585' ea Silent 1774 10TH MOUNTAIN DIV Castel D'Aiano, (?) Italy 3-4 Mar 45 Full screen view, two dead German soldiers lying at side of road. MS, two US soldiers on foot pass the dead Germans. Head-on shots, single file of US soldiers walking on mountain road passing dead German soldiers. CUs, MSs, soldiers carrying loaded MG belts, mortar ammunition, rations on packboards thru mountainous terrain. MSs to CU, M-10 motor carriage proceeds along narrow mountain trail. VS, soldiers dig in along edge of mountain road and on steep hillside. LHS, town of Castel D'Aiano. LSs, shells bursting on building on mountain top. (One plane in distance dive-bombs area.) CUs, wrecked building of the town. MSs, Italian civilians with ox carts evacuate the area. They herd their sheep and oxen as they depart. vs, Col Henry Blesse, CG, Us 56th Evac Hospital, bids goodbye to doctors, nurses and others of hospital staff. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY EBS/dk Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities