AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE AND SHELL CISTERNA, ITALY Part 2

Description

1) MS Two Sherman tanks, one of which has turret shot off, sitting on front lines; man in jeep driving in BG; grass in FG.2) MS Sherman tank with turret knocked off; bombed out bldg. in BG.3) MS Destroyed Sherman tanks sitting on front lines; tracks of tanks lying in FG; body of German soldier lying in front of tanks.4) MCU American soldier taking off helmet and removing piece of toilet paper from it; bombed out bldg. in BG.5) MS American war dead lying in trench; grass on each side of trench; flies crawling over bodies.6) MCU-ECU Same as above; half of soldier"s leg lying beside body. 2V7) LS Germans shelling Cisterna, Italy.8) LS Explosions; house shot up and bombed in FG.9) LS Explosions beyond house; tanks and homes bombed out in FG.10) LS Explosions ; shell bursts; smoke rising on horizon of Cisterna, Italy. SV11) LS Small village; smoke columns; shell explosions.12) MS Destroyed American tanks; dead American lying under a tank; soldiers walk over to dead man and cover his body; German tank with turret knocked off.13) MS Dead American soldier lying under tank; track of tank broken.14) CU Same as above.15) CU German prisoner lying on stretcher; feet of American soldier; American soldier pulls blanket from prisoner and shows prisoner"s wounds.16) LS Shell bursts in air; village and mts. in BG.17) LS Bomb blasts and smoke columns in Cisterna, Italy.Title: ADM W.L. AINSWORTH Presents Awards ab"d USS HONOLULU and USS ST. LOUIS18) MS ADM. AINSWORTH speaking into mike; sailors in formation nearby; offcr. standing beside ADM.19) MS ADM. speaking into mike; CAPT. HAYLER besides him.20) ADM presenting Navy Cross to CAPT. HAYLER.21) MS ADM. presenting Navy Cross to LT. T.B. OWEN.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities