Italy

Series

Series Name

War Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.

188

Date Released

11 Dec 1944

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Western Front
2. 2Women Railway Workers
3. 3Italy

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

The Fourth Indian division smash through the Gothic Line. Germans surrender. Italian refugees return to their homes. Bad conditions caused by copious mud and rain make the going slow and difficult for the advancing Eighth Army. (Soldiers try to push a tank through the mud, lay logs across the quagmire to walk on. Wounded are carried through mud on sledges.) Gurkhas cross the swollen River Ronco with mules.

Keywords

Vehicles; Weather; Casualties; Animals; Military

Credits:

Commentator

Rex Keating

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film

Phone

020 7416 5291

Fax

020 7416 5379

Address

Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ

Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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