Title:DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU SEQUENCES - 8 [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 1237
Other titles:GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS AT ANZIO AND IN SOUTHERN ITALY [Alternative Title]
Summary: Three separate newsreel items show German counter-attacks at Anzio and in Southern Italy.
Description: I. Road sign indicates direction to Reggio di Calabria (218 kms) and San [Santo] Stefano di Rogliano. German paratroops engage in fighting in arid countryside and town, where 88mm flak is fired at point blank range down street. (DW eagle end logo) (116 ft) (Part of item 12 of DW 682/41/43 of 29/9/1943)
II. German paratroops overlooking Anzio-Nettuno bridgehead fire MG 34 as allied landing craft approaches shore. Germans man camouflaged 88mm flak. Kesselring observes beachhead through rangefinder. 28cm railway gun named Leopold is repeatedly loaded, elevated and fired against enemy landing positions. Large explosions visible. (Part of item 8 of DW 705/12/44 of 8/3/1944) (185 ft)
III. Inside a Junkers Ju 88 reconnaissance photographs are taken of allied shipping off the Anzio-Nettuno bridgehead. Plane lands and car takes photo magazine to aerial reconnaissance unit for examination. Photos show Anzio port and Nettuno airfield. 28cm railway gun Leopold is loaded, elevated and fired against coastal targets and is traversed on its turntable. (Brief DW eagle end logo) (Part of item 9 of DW 710/17/44 of 11/4/1944) (260 ft)
Alternative Title:GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS AT ANZIO AND IN SOUTHERN ITALY [Alternative Title]
