U.S. 1st Division soldiers in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. The soldiers in a mess line. A U.S. Army sergeant reads New York Tax Return blank and scratches his head.
Italian Expeditionary Forces at Russian Front. A soldier looks through binocular. Barbed fences in snow covered field. Italian soldiers walk on snow covered ground. They rush to prone position on the sound of fire. They also fire. They hide behind a house. Soldiers fire from window. Dead body lie in field. Trains arrive. Soldiers stand aligned. Tires unloaded from train. Trucks go. Troops march on road. General Giovanni Messe, Commander in Chief of the Expeditionary forces, arrives to inspect repair shops behind the front lines. Messe present medals to soldiers. A cart goes on mud filled road. Soldiers work on poles. Troops with rifles walk. Soldiers nail wood logs. They reinforce bridge. Vehicles pass on mud road. Wood logs lay on ground. Soldiers build wood road. Vehicle pass on new road. Soldiers push truck on rail tracks. (World War II period).
Italian Expeditionary Forces at Northern Africa Front. Soldiers of Italian Expedition Force comes out of fox holes. They run out from dugouts. Machine gun emplacement at battle field. Soldiers fire guns. They look through binocular. Trucks and bikes in field. Soldiers run in trenches. Soldiers run in field with machine guns and fire in prone position. Airborne troops land on isolated emergency airfield built by Britishers on the desert. Paratroopers destroy gasoline and munition dumps in field. Soldiers stand with covered artillery. Troops get in aircraft with guns. Italian Expeditionary Forces in Malta: Air raid over Malta. Pilots get on planes. Plane taxis and takes off. Airplane in flight. Pilots in cockpit. Air plane in flight over sea. Aerial view of Malta Island. (World War II period).
An Italian military airfield in Sicily. A flight of 7 fighter aircraft in formation, abreast, flies over the field. A row of Macchi C.200 Saetta aircraft parked in front of a hangar (also variously called MC.200 or Macchi 200). A row of Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero Trimotor bombers parked across from them. Ground crews loading torpedoes on the bombers. A Reggiane Re.2001 Falco II airplane being serviced. Ground crewman reports to pilots that their bomber is ready. They board and ground crew pulls chocks as the engines are running. View inside the S.79 cockpit with pilot's hand on the triple throttles. The bomber takes off raising lots of dust as it goes. Italian aircraft in flight. British ships sighted below. The Italian bombers attack. Flak bursts in the air. One S-79 skimming the water surface. Other S-79s dropping torpedoes from relatively high altitudes (perhaps 1500 feet). A British warship is struck with large explosion. Italian planes returning with at least two burning British warships left behind. (World War II period).
World War II. U.S. Soldiers walk through a demolished Italian village. Other soldiers escort some Italian prisoners . They approach a pontoon bridge over which a U.S. military armored half-track vehicle is crossing toward them. The half-track passes by and the prisoners and their guards walk across the pontoon bridge.
Wilbur Wright makes a world's altitude record by rising 360 feet at Le Mans, France. Airplane flies in sky. High altitude view of snow covered mountains. Aerial view of snow covered fields, trees and mountains.
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