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United States bomber planes damaged by Mount Vesuvius eruption at Pompeii airfield outside Naples, Italy during World War 2

Mount Vesuvius erupts. United States Army Air Force B-25 bomber planes covered with lava dust at Pompeii airfield, where aircraft of the 340th Bombardment Group and 321st Bombardment Group were stationed in World War II. Damaged wings of bombers from hot volcanic ash and brimstone. Two bombers buried in ash. Scraper clears airfield. Bomber in the foreground of still-smoking Mount Vesuvius.

Date: 1944, March
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026159
General Mark W Clark visits damaged areas of Pompeii in Italy.

Views of village destroyed in Pompeii, Italy. Army trucks standing near the wrecked buildings. U.S. and British soldiers move through the battered village streets. Mount Vesuvius visible in the background. Soldiers talk to children standing near the army trucks. General Mark W. Clark along with other officers observes the damaged places and buildings. General Clark stands at the damaged Coliseum of Pompeii. Bomb crater visible in the middle of the Coliseum arena. The soldiers tour the Pompeii ruins. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, September
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030858
A sculptured pillar and a fountain amongst Roman ruins in Pompeii, Italy.

Roman ruins in Pompeii, near Naples, Italy. Views of ancient stone streets lined with walls and buildings. Columned Front and courtyard of a grand villa. Elaborately carved stone border on a house. Carved stone commemorating some event. Painted walls on interior of a house (looking almost as bright as they were when painted) with portraits of a man and woman on them. A stone gateway at a town square. Statue of a faun that was part of a fountain in courtyard of a grand villa. Statue of a boy holding a goose. Views of smoldering lava on Mt. Vesuvius. (Note: When the volcano Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. the then seaside village of Pompeii was covered with hot ash, killing almost all of its inhabitents, man and beast alike, and lay undisovered for almost 2000 years. There is still much to be excavated by archeologists.)

Date: 1938, May
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077849
British soldiers visit graves of British war correspondents in Pompeii, Italy (WW2)

Wrecked village of Pompeii with views of Mount Vesuvius, in Italy during World War II. British soldiers passing through the destroyed village streets. Citizens looking out from the wrecked buildings. Soldiers standing near the graves of war correspondents killed in action. Graves of Mr. Sale, Mr. Austin and Mr. Munday are seen.

Date: 1943, September
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030857
General Mark W Clark and General Matthew B Ridgway visit cheering crowds in Pompeii, Italy (WW2)

General Mark W Clark and General Matthew B Ridgway in Pompeii, Italy during World War II. General Clark along with General Ridgway stands in an army jeep and moves through narrow village streets. People cheer and greet Army Officers and U.S. troops. General Clark waves to the cheering crowd as the convoy of army vehicles including M3 tanks move through the crowd.

Date: 1943, August 10
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030859
U.S. soldiers observe destroyed amphitheater and bomb crater in Pompeii, Italy.

Aerial view of the destroyed coliseum amphitheater in Pompeii, Italy. A huge bombardment impression seen on the ground of the coliseum. U.S. soldiers inspecting the site and walking through the bomb crater. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, November 9
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030866