Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels. 1943 - 1945. WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 164 [JUNE 26]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels. 1943 - 1945. WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 164 [JUNE 26]

1944

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/39194

Part 1, Brit. and U.S. units celebrate outside Rome. Can. tanks and infantry move through mud preceded by mine sappers. 8th Army tanks advance toward Ponte Corvo; field guns are fired. Infantry and machine gun units fight in the streets of Aquina. Polish troops enter Piedi Monte, fire field guns, move prisoners to the rear, and are reviewed by Gens. Anders and Alexander. Civilians cheer U.S. troops entering Rome and attack Nazi sympathizers. Part 2, Gens. Spaatz and Eisenhower and Air Marshal Mallory confer. Supplies are massed in Eng. for the Normandy invasion. Bombers fly over a convoy and strike coastal defenses. Troops land and bring supplies ashore. Gen. Montgomery lands. London citizens receive the invasion news.

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