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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221582-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1944,1945
Country: Italy
Location: Apennine Mountains,Pianza
TC Begins: 10:00:51
TC Ends: 10:09:38
Duration: 00:08:47
The Climb To Glory - Part One R1 of 3 re Fifth Army, 10th Mountain Division assault on Gothic line, Nov44 - Feb45 - incl. some captured German footage. Narrated by both American & German veterans. Pan around mountainous countryside landscape. View down from mountain side. German & American veterans talk to camera giving their rank: Americans, Lt. Bill Putnam of 85th, Sgt. Ben Bush of 86th,. Gen. George P. Hays (commanding General of 10th Mt. Div. Germans, Sgt. George Bibam (sp?); Gen. Hans George Hildebrand. 10:02:41 Title: The Climb To Glory Pt. 1 10th Mountain Division patch Globe turning. The Big Picture title. 10:03:25 Man walks in woods, looking up. Battle footage of destroyed trees, troops fire & advance uphill; hiking on road. Cute Italian children watch. 23Dec44. Troops into town, camp - tents, shaving, hanging laundry, roll dice, queuing for chow, playing football game. 10:05:41 08Jan45 Moving north on trail. Man staring in trees. Camped in rain, men cleaning guns & loading equipment on truck. Drying gun parts over fire. 04Feb45 Infantry on road. Troops arrive on Riva(?) ridge by ruins & fire guns near village of Pianza Natico (?). Firing 60mm mortars, explosions. Smoke over town. Explosion in building. 10:08:54 Large German gun firing. Germans watching w/ binoculars. US troops pinned down, then run behind wall. WWII - European Theater - Italy; WW2; 1944; 1945;