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Allied Military Government battles black market and corruption affecting Italian food and agriculture during World war II
Challenges faced by the Allied Military Government while trying to reestablish Italian self reliance in agriculture during World War 2. Film opens showing Italian-sourced food supplies being delivered, as Narrator discusses problems of black market. He notes that Italian wheat growers who fail to declare excess grain are raided. Officials are seen entering and seizing grain from warehouse of such a grain merchant. Loaded trucks pass checkpoints set up on highways. View of official examining bill of laden from a truck being checked. Armed Italian Carabinieri ride on trucks of grain to prevent pilfering. Glimpse of AMG officials as narrator speaks of strict rationing system. Italians at a table, counting out ration coupons. Ceiling prices of all commodities seen posted at public places in Sicily. Sacks of seed potatoes being loaded from an AMG warehouse onto a horse-drawn cart that is then seen driving away, fully loaded. A boy on a farm unloades a sack of seed pototoes. Barefoot Italian women and girls planting the new crop. Fishing boats being readied to put out again. View from a fishing boat as men retrieve a large net filled with fish. An open air marketplace filled with Italian shoppers. A window sign announcing American bread. A woman shooing flies away from her open stall in the market as an old woman samples some of her wares.
U.S. Pacific fleet at sea before Pearl Harbor attack, and Italian sailors establish barrage balloons around Italian Naval base
The U.S. Naval fleet underway in the Pacific before Pearl Harbor. Italian narrator describing names and sizes of various ships including the USS Arizona,USS Oklahoma, USS West Virginia, USS California and USS New Mexico. Footage of the U.S. Pacific fleet ships in heavy seas with water crashing over their bows. Army Air Force biplanes take off from the deck of the USS Langley Aircraft Carrier. Sailors stand by as a biplane aircraft lands on the deck of the USS Langley (CV-1). Biplane aircraft on the deck of the USS Langley. Topic then changes to Air-Raid Defenses in and around Italian naval bases. Italian Sailors roll helium barrage balloon inflation tanks into ships. Sailors direct air into a balloon. Numerous barrage balloons in the sky. Soldiers prepare to release a balloon from a boat and fasten the metal cables. Deck guns in position. Soldiers observe through binoculars, telescopes, other instruments and monitor gauges and radar on a machine. A soldier talks on the radio from amidst sand bag barricades. Soldiers watch as two play a bacci ball game. They run to take their positions as a soldier signals incoming enemy aircraft. Enemy planes attack the Italian base. Explosions near ships in the water. A barrage balloon is hit and bursts into flames. Sailors fire anti aircraft artillery from behind a barricade. Mobile units dash to substitute the destroyed barrage balloon with a new one. Soldiers in a truck hold onto the new balloon and then release it. (World War II period).
U.S. heavy artillery bombards German targets with coordinated gunfire during Italian campaign of World War II
U.S. Army staff sergeant in a sand-bagged bunker, uses binoculars to observe Germany areas targeted by American heavy during the Italian campaign of World War 2. A 155mm long tom gun and other heavy guns, under camouflage netting, begin elevating for a so-called "Bingo" barrage to blanket a German-held area by shelling. Artillerymen with phones and headsets coordinate the start of the barrage. Scenes of steady firing from numerous guns of various types and sizes.
"Fasci Italiani All Estero" meeting. Wreath and flags in honor of fallen Fascists. Italian Fascist leader Piero Parini speaks (WW2)
Names of German war correspondents listed in World War II. Narrator refers to past political regimes. Refers to Fascists from Berlin and their comrades from the old guard. Representatives of "Fasci Italiani All Estero" (Italian Fascists Abroad) meet in Rome at Building labeled "Fascion-Federico Guella." They participate in ceremony honoring fallen Fascists. Memorial Wreaths and flags are shown. Secretary General of the Italian Fascists Abroad, Piero Parini, greets the group and gives a speech in which he emphasizes that Italian Fascists are "side by side" with the Germans--that. Italian and German soldiers are comrades in war. Banners of various groups of fascists abroad are displayed.
Civilians bid farewell to Italian soldiers as they march to trains bound for Russia during World War II.
Italian troops mobilize during World War 2. Italian soldiers pack their back packs and prepare to march forward. The troops begin to march to trains bound for Russia. The military band plays as they march. A huge crowd of civilians on the streets. Men, women, and children watch as the troops march towards the trains. People hold miniature Italian flags and cheer the soldiers. Civilians gather on either side of the road as the soldiers move ahead.
Food served to U.S. soldiers on the Italian Front during World War II.
Activities of United States soldiers on the Italian Front during World War II. Film opens showing Mount Vesuvius, viewed from a distance. Closeup of a cargo ship offloading supplies in rope nets to men on boats below. A DUKW (six-wheel drive amphibious truck) moves up the beach. Next Army cooks are seen preparing fresh chickens on the tailgate of a truck. Closeup of soldiers expressing approval of the fare being prepared. Next the cooks ladle portions of the prepared meal into mess kits of Allied and American soldiers. Closeup of one mess kit containing a meal of poultry, mashed potatoes, and peas. Soldiers seated on the ground enjoying their meals. Red Cross nurses walking among tents where clothes are drying on a line. One woman is washing some items. Soldiers carry a wounded on a stretcher, accompanied by a nurse carrying a plasma bottle. A truck making its way with difficulty through deep mud. Soldiers struggling to walk through deep mud. Closeup of a wooden case containing Field “C” rations. All manner of canned goods are displayed from the supply case. Cans of food are passed to soldiers on a defensive line. They examine the canned goods they’ve received and discuss them with one another. A Colonel eating from a can along with soldiers.
