ITALY / DEFENCE: World War 2: Cassino bombing by allied aircraft (1944)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Most impressive pictures yet received from Italy show tremendous air-pounding of key town on road to Rome. Full Description: GV Cassino town being shelled. SV New Zealand gunners firing 6pdr. anti-tank gun on hillside. SV gunner pushing shell into breach. SV 6pdr. fires CU shell bursting in front of gun from return fire by Germans and 6pdr. fires. SV loading shell into breach. SV anti-tank gun fires. LV New Zealanders firing German 75mm. gun. BV firing gun. LV firing German gun. LBV infantry moving forward towards town under cover of smoke. SBV Troops running forward. LV Bren gunners and riflemen firing from hillside into town. SCU BV Bren gunner firing from hillside.(ROTA BLUE) GV pan showing completely ruined buildings and debris in Cassino. SV wrecked buildings. BV two soldiers looking out form cave