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Climb To Glory, The - Part Two R3 of 3

Reel Number: 221582-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944,1945

Country: Italy

Location: Apennine Mountains,Po Valley

TC Begins: 10:47:20

TC Ends: 10:57:00

Duration: 00:09:40

The Climb To Glory - Part Two R3 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. Tank moving, Germans running alongside road; GIs fighting from behind fence; tanks thru olive groves, fierce battle. Overturned tank from landmine. German tanks & infantry retreating on road. German veterans recount retreat. 10:49:30 10th arrives by Po River. Gen. Hays recounts crossing Po river. Camouflaged artillery fire, amphibious vehicle crossing & German antiaircraft guns fired on other side of river. Troops on other side of Po River, in farm yard, GIs slowly walking past farm building. 10:51:46 Road sign Verona. (much of following is recent footage of area) 10th Division on Verona’s Lake Garda. Town nearby. German mountain bunker exterior & interior. Sign ‘Fiume Adige’. Road signs ‘Trento’ & ‘Riva Garda’. Empty narrow streets of small Northern Italian town. Banks of Lake Garda. Awards ceremony on banks of lake with Mark Clark. Bell rings. 10:55:26 Large military cemetery in Italy, monument and graves. Soldiers praying. The End. WWII - European Theater - Italy; End of War; W2; 1944; 1945;

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