This article incorporates some text from my articles “1st Lieutenant John S. Tunisian campaign, Italy (including Cassino and Anzio)Īuthor’s note: Delaware’s World War II Fallen occasionally highlights men and women without any known connection to the First State. Lightsey in 1941 or 1942 (Courtesy of Walter Veasey) Home StateĬompany “C,” 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion View pricing below video player.Robert D. This historic stock footage available in HD video. Captured German soldiers being taken into custody, searched, and processed as prisoners of war. German military equipment destroyed and burning during the American Winter Line offensive. American soldiers are seen mingling with the civilian inhabitants. view in the Italian town on 7 January, 1944, when street fighting has ended. 137 Infantry Regiment advancing on San Vittore. Soldiers of the 168th Infantry Regiment firing a recoiless rifle from wooded area. warplane flying overhead, of smoke rising from German positions in the Winter Line. Bombs dropped from American warplane aircraft explode near roads in the valley. Soldiers holding their ears when gun fires. Closeup of American gun crew loading and firing a 155mm long tom field gun.

Groups of American troops firing mortars from valley below. Shelling of Mountaintop flanking Highway 6held by Germans. On 1 January, 1944, Second Corp reinforcements have arrived and Americans commence a new assault on the German Winter Line defenses, with an artillery barrage on German positions guarding San Vittore del Lazio. Scene shifts to Mount Sammucro where American troops take advantage of a brief lull in fighting. They place the carefully wrapped remains at the base of a bullet pock-marked stone structure. On December 28th, they employ pack mules and also use stretchers to retrieve remains of fallen 3rd Division defenders down the steep mountain trails of Mount Lungo. They receive Christmas dinner in their individual mass kits and sit down on the ground to eat it. It is Christmas Day, 1943 and they occupy Mount Lungo. American troops of the 45th Infantry Division, are seen in mountains after breaking through the first segment of the German Winter Line, near San Pietro Infine, Italy, in World War 2.

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