Climb To Glory, The - Part One. Pt 2 of 2

The Climb To Glory - Part One. Pt 2 of 2 Man walking thru woods reminiscing; view across to Mount Belvedere 01:46:27 Sign: Headquarters 10th Division’; outdoors briefing. Gen. Hays explaining to Gen Crittenberger & other men the plan. 01:47:16 German in foxhole firing machine-gun & at observation scope. Gen. Hildebrand explains from his side that he had no German air support. 01:48:03 Exterior farm building used for US army headquarters - farmer host recounts their stay & battle. Italian guide Gino Lanzi to camera re Division getting on top of ridge. 01:49:37 GIs move around rocks w/ rifles. LS moving along ridge. CU of placing pitons, carabiners & ropes. Expert climbers fix ropes on rock. Searchlights beaming (GOOD). Men on telephone, throw grenades & combat starts. Night fighting. Men run forward. General Hayes looks thru binoculars. Troops run thru charred trees. 01:52:14 Germans planning w/ map & firing guns, mortars, etc. from hideout. Allies firing heavy artillery & men looking on. CU & firing from under camouflage netting. CU faces. Plane flies overhead. 85th and 87th Regiments push uphill on Mount Belvedere. 01:54:23 Germans firing mortars from on top of Mt. Belvedere. Men move up hillside thru smoke. 87th regiment on road. Wounded evacuated. Men running along ridge. German Jeager Regiment & 10th moving up, throwing grenades, firing mortars, rifles; confrontation & fierce battle. By 10Feb45 making headway. 01:56:22 German veteran testifies about success of American Mountain Division. 24Feb45 Riva & Belvedere were secured. Quiet fields after area secured by Allies. CUs American soldiers. German says how hard each side fought. End titles. WWII - European Theater - Italy; WW2; 1944; 1945; Gothic Line Fighting;