Reel Number: 220806-11
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Italy
Location: Monte Cassino
TC Begins: 10:51:44
TC Ends: 11:01:54
Duration: 00:10:10
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Monte Cassino - pilot briefing & aerials Studying aerial photograph of Cassino area. Pilots resting with hot drinks -joking with nurses. Pilots get into planes and takeoff. Flying above Cassino and strafing of valley seen from plane. Additional planes takeoff and in flight filmed from above. Bombarded Cassino seen from ground. Plane formations seen from below. Good takeoffs. Troops firing on mountainside. Sign “mines”. Explosion dangerously near soldier. LS explosions in valley and on mountain. Ruins. 10:57:57 excellent shot POV plane diving towards flames coming out of bombarded monastery. Soldiers digging graves in cemetery. GVs valley 7 assault. GVs valley and mountains. Troops climb uphill and survey valley; firing towards valley. Patrol climbs down towards valley amidst fire.