Italy: Cassino - British and American troops near Cassino ADC-843
111-adc-843
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Description:
30 Mar 44
(Silent)
ADC 843
Int shots, Commission seated at table.
CU, delegates from the US, United Kingdom and Russia.
BOMBING OF KT CASSINO, ITALY
Mar 44
(Composite)
LS, Benedictine Monastery.
HS, bomb-wrecked town of Cassino.
CU pamphlet, "Italian Friends - BEWARE'', signed by the 5th Army telling the
people to evacuate the area.
MS, soldiers load pamphlets into shells; leaflets are fired in direction of
Monastery; hits can be seen.
VS, formation of B-26 bombers fly over Cassino cut to bombs falling and
exploding on Monastery..
Excellent scenes of bombs as they fall directly upon and in the near vicinity
of the Monastery. Huge columns of smoke engulf the area.
LS, vapor trails from bombers. Record Group 111
CU Ext LS, monastery before and after bombing.