WWII Italy ca May44, Pontine Marshes; Cisterna Advance & Destruction

WWII Italy ca May44, Pontine Marshes; Cisterna Advance & Destruction View from water towards flooded houses; people poling in small boat. Camouflaged anti-aircraft gun. Soldiers out of small flatbottom boat. 16:16:36 Pan over bullet damaged two-story town buildings, US army ambulance leaving; US troops walking w/ Italians thru town. Talking in group. Largely empty streets. 16:17:14 25May44 Cisterna di Littoria, Italy. Some camera shutter problems. 16:17:33 Dead German (?) w/ flies over uniform; US soldiers w/ rifles walk thru heavy destruction in village. Smoking wreckage. Badly decomposed body. US tank over rubble. surrendering German soldiers searched. Body on ground & soldiers past. CUs of US & Germans. GIs marching past destroyed tank; dusty road & bootprints. Line of troops along country road. 16:20:27 Slate. Cisterna Drive. Captured Germans marched w/ hands on back of head; into field. Arriving GIs past camera. 16:21:32 MS Grouped POWs. CUs. 16:22:44 More POWs arrive, sit under guard in field. Searched. CUs. 16:23:46 Aerial over destroyed villages w/o roofs missing. WWII 1944; Death; Horrors of War;