United States 5th Army troops enter Naples, Italy during World War II. Troops and army vehicles enter Naples. Tanks roll into the city. U.S. troops on guard. Ships and boats at the port of Naples. Soldiers in Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi. The statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi is seen. Italian civilians greet the first units of the 5th Army entering Naples. Cheering civilians on the street.
View of American destroyers (DD) in Naples Harbor during World War II. A United States Navy officer on bridge. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) in Naples Harbor. A Destroyer Escort (DE) lays smoke screen on water. View of landing crafts (LC). Formations of planes. DE, DD & YMS in Naples Harbor. LST tow barrage balloons. YMS leaves Naples Harbor.
Fifth Army enters Naples in Italy during World War II. Convoy of ships on harbor of Naples. Soldiers and officers move in jeeps and trucks. Horse carts move on roads. Crowd of civilians watch the movement of the 5th Army. Soldiers sitting on trucks move on the roads of the city. Sign 'To Rome' on street. Soldiers buy food and merchants load potatoes in a military vehicle. Sign on Bank of Naples reads 'Mussolini Has Met His Finish, Hitler prepared for him'. Derailed street cars used as barricades. Rubble and debris at a bombed portion of Naples.
Ruins in Naples, Italy. Arrow sign of Naples. U.S. personnel in army jeep outside a building. Pedestrians along a street. Demolished buildings and bomb destruction from World War II bombing. View of Castel Nuovo or Maschio Angioino (Via Vittorio Emanuele III, 80133 Napoli NA, Italy). Traffic on road and a building in background. View of Naples harbor. View of the Egg Castle or Castel dell'Ovo (Via Eldorado, 3, 80132 Napoli NA, Italy). A ship underway in sea. Mountains behind shoreline.
Italian naval maneuvers in Naples, Italy during World War II. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, King Victor Emanuel III of Italy and Crown Prince Umberto aboard a vessel in Naples. Hitler comes aboard an Italian battleship and being greeted by Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. They greet each other with Nazi and Roman salutes. Italian speedboats race across a bay. A convoy underway at sea as smoke rises from vessels. Italian ships pass in review off the coast of Naples. Sailors lined up on the deck of the ships as they pass in review. A seaplane in flight.
Typhus epidemic strikes the city of Naples during World War II. Members of American Typhus control crew give DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) dustings to prisoners in a local jail. An ambulance moves out of a 'Delousing Service Depot' in Naples. Dusting crew on a rail road car. Crew from U.S. flying squadrons delouse children. Booster shots are given to U.S. military personnel. A policeman and a civilian. A chart shows the number of patients before delousing and vaccination and the fall in the number of patients after delousing and vaccination. Italian people and children on streets. Views of happy children. A boy turns the large wheel on a hand cranked barrel piano (precursor to the player piano) in the street to make it play music. Various views of Naples.