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Newsreel 'Latest films of war in Italy' shows progress of Allied forces advancing toward Rome in World War 2

United States Army Air Force fighter planes and B-17 bomber aircraft seen in flight, including close-up aerial views looking down on B-17 in flight. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Hustlin Hussy” of the 385th Bomb Group in flight. Views of American bombing on the German supply lines outside of Rome Italy during World War II. U.S. planes bomb railroad marshaling yards near Rome. Allied forces cover the Mediterranean Sea. Explosions seen on ground as filmed from Allied aircraft over head. Fifth United States Army advance from the Anzio beachheads toward Rome. General Mark Clark in aircraft as he inspects the operation via aerial view. Close up views of General Mark Clark after he exits airplane to inspect operations. U.S. 5th Army troops on the ground bombard German positions with mortars and artillery. Explosions seen along German lines. American soldiers seen passing through small bombed-out villages in Italy. The town of Anzio heavily damaged after bombing. Group of Italian refugees greet American troops. German prisoners of war who have surrendered are marched in Italy, including many being marched double time. German prisoners marching, passing by a sign with arrow that reads “Military Police H.Q.”. They are seen being loaded into the same invasion ships that brought the Allied forces to Italy.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040783
Views of destruction and privation in Italy. Views of Corsica and Alta Air Base, there, during World War II.

Camera positions in aircraft P-47. Camera installed behind pilot, under the wing, in the wing, and the wheel well. Pilot's hand at instrument panel. Actor James Stewart reads a passage from a book about the film'Thunderbolt' depicting U.S. Air Forces operations flying P-47 aircraft, during World War II. A ship in a harbor. Ruined buildings at Italian port town. Italian civilians pass on street. Ruined buildings in town. Horse-drawn carts pass along road. Men and women in rubble. Face of an old lady. Refugees on Kimble Bridge. Children in rubble-strewn street. Skeleton of dead bombing victim in rubble. Clouds settled over mountains. A river and waterfall as seen from aircraft. Aerials of town on banks of river. Ruins of Italian towns. Wrecked train. Map highlights Corsica, Mediterranean Sea and Sicily. Island of Corsica. A family with animals being watered at a fountain. Several people posing outside the "Bar Napoleon."Corsican people on street. A graveyard containing German war dead. Man climbs control tower at Alto Air Base in Corsica. Crew at work on airfield. Unfuzed bombs are casually rolled off a moving trailer onto the ground. Man refuels P-47. A soldier sleeps in tent. Men in tents and outside get ready for mission in morning. Airman looks into mirror. Airmen wear uniform and comb hair. Men wash faces and shave. Men brush teeth. Also shows morning activities of a Captain. Aerials of Alto Air Base. Men on look out tower. A Lieutenant smokes pipe. Airmen enter tent and get instructions from officer. Men around chart.

Date: 1944
Duration: 9 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051966
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft attack enemy targets under Operation Strangle.

Map of Italy shows narrowest part of peninsula where U.S. and British armies are stationed. Map highlights Anzio and Cassino. A building on top of mountain. On island of Corsica, Lt Gen Ira C Eaker, commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Forces, Maj Gen John K Cannon, leader of the Twelfth Air Force, and Brig Gen Gordon Seville of the Twelfth Tactical Air Command, plan Operation Strangle. By animation the operation is explained where pilots of Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group is required to bomb behind enemy lines and cut off the transport of enemy supplies using the P-47 Thunderbolt. Shows destroyed bridges. P-47s taxi at airfield. P-47s parked in flight line. Crew chiefs in canopy of the plane and inspect other sections of plane. Pilots board planes. Planes take off from runway. P-47s in flight over sea, mountains and a castle. P-47s in flight behind squadron leader. P-47s in flight over clouds. P-47s peel off above the bridge. An incendiary bomb is dropped on a bridge. More bridges are bombed. Explosions on bridges. P-47 in flight over fields and railroad tracks. One train spotted. P-47 strafing moving trains. Trains explode. P-47 in flight over coastline and pilot in cockpit. P-47 strafing installations and ground targets. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 17 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051967
German U-boat Unterseeboot 35 (SM U-35) attacks ships in the Mediterranean Sea during World War I.

Two German officers conferring on land. Views of German U boats in the Mediterranean Sea during World War 1. Men on deck of U-Boat SM U-35 underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Men on the bridge of the U boat look through binoculars. Views of attacks by SM U-35 on several ships, including one sailing vessel with all sails up. A ship sinks after being attacked by the U boat. Crew of SM U-35 review a typed piece of paper with information on all target ships in the area. After sinking a ship, they cross off the line on the list for the ship "Brisbane River", which is listed as a 4,989 grt ship. (War records indicate the Brisbane River was sunk 17 April 1917, 140 miles west of Gibraltar.) Captain of a sunken ship being transferred from a life boat to the U-boat as a prisoner. Unterseeboot 35 strafes and torpedoes 3 other ships and all are shown sinking, including one sailing vessel. Views of German crew inside the U boat as they work on controls, view through periscope, and ready torpedo tubes. Crew also shown operating deck gun to fire on a target ship.

Date: 1917, April 17
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042411
German sailors row boats and work on ships underway in the Mediterranean sea

German Navy crews aboard war ships underway in the Mediterranean sea. Sailors pick up flags and raise flags. Boats being lowered from the ship's deck. A row boat loaded with sailors being lowered. Sailors row boats. A pulley system on ship. Sailors pull a row boat. Sailors come out of the row boat. Sailors stand on the ship's deck. Sailors pull a metal chain. Barrel in the foreground. Sailors stand in formation. A sailor rotates direction wheel of ship. A Mediterranean port seen from the sea. Boats at the port. A pier on the port. Two sailors walk on road.

Date: 1918
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067979
German aircraft drop bombs over British ships in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II.

German soldiers battle against the British in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II. A map shows Gibraltar, Algiers in Algeria, Tunis and German advancement. A fleet of German aircraft in flight. British ships in the Mediterranean Sea. German ships fire torpedoes at British ships. An explosion on a British ship. German aircraft drop bombs over British ships. The Germans on a ship deck. The British ship sinking.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675064773