Producer, Stanley Clish, Donald Brittain ; executive producer, Peter Jones ; script, Donald Brittain ; editing, John Kemeny ; sound editing, Kenneth Heeley-Ray, Victor Merrill ; re-recording, George Croll, Ted Haley ; music, Robert Fleming, Eldon Rathburn, Maurice Blackburn, Ken Campbell.

Narrator, Budd Knapp.

Recorded 1962.

July 1943 - January l944. The objective at last--Fortress Europe. The Canadian 1st Division, flanked by the British and Americans, pushes into Italy. Italians surrender but the Germans resist. Ortona, a 15th-century town, riddled with bullets and grenades, is taken by Canadians in fierce and costly street fighting.

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Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).