 The Allied Fifth Army rolls on in the face of incessant rain, scenes such as these depicting something of the terrific obstacles barring the road to Rome. Rivers are roaring torrents. Pontoon bridges thrown up by engineers are pounded by the flood. Knee deep gives way only to modern road building equipment. Red Cross worker braves the quagmire to carry freshly baked American donuts to troops bogged down along the roadways. Colonel Clark, Fifth Army Commander, enjoys lunch along with his men. Religious services for American troops in the shadow of the Apennine Mountains. An army chaplain conducting mass within sound of the guns. .55's score a direct hit atop Mount Camino, one of the Nazi strong points. Her is terrific. The Zuccas, the infantry's new rocket gun, are devastating. The hospitals, plainly marked with the Red Cross emblem, operate within a few miles of the fighting front. Here blood plasma sent by civilians in America is saving lives that might otherwise be lost. Please continue the advance. The ruined streets of an Italian town, Americans move in cautiously. Booby traps and land mines are favorite souvenirs left by the enemy. The road back, Nazi prisoners on their way to the rear. Following closely in the wake of the fighting, ambulance units are tireless in caring for the wounded, hopeless civilians looking to the United Nations for peace and relief from war. Looking 90 miles across the South Pacific from bases in New Guinea, American Liberator bombers bound for the Japanese held island of New Britain. New Britain, between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, was once a German colony. Then an Australian mandate until captured and fortified by the Japs. The Americans objective, the Arawe Peninsula, 356 tons of high explosive softening up enemy positions in the jungle below. It's core to make their attack with the pounding from the sky. It moves in. The beach head is one. Most of the Gilbert Islands is another point of attack. Though small, mock-in is of great strategic value to the United Nations. Navy cameras synchronized with blazing guns record the story as American planes blast and riddle Japanese shipping trying to bring reinforcements to the island bases. In the air script, Yankee planes brave a hail of anti-aircraft fire. Jap bombers are destroyed on the ground. Leaming from the north, General MacArthur's sixth United States Army moves in. Lieutenant Colonel James Roosevelt at right, son of the president, serving as an observer. Japanese bomber is driven off. Thur receives a direct hit. His forces storm the beach. His treetop snipers and hidden machine guns. And the island base is one. The entire garrison is wiped out. Those who would surrender are taken as prisoners. Miles across water from Rabaul, main Jap base on New Britain, is the last of the Solomon Islands in enemy hands. Reveals Empress Augusta Bay, heavy reinforcements pour in to strengthen the American position. The Marshall Islands, a United States carrier task force, writes a thrilling epic in this new phase of war in the mid-Pacific. 72 Jap planes shot down in this one engagement. Their torpedo planes desperately attack. Superior marksmanship sends them flaming into the sea, making the offensive in the Pacific.