Rome, Italy during World War II. A map of Italy shows various places. German infantry and cavalry units march ahead in Italy after the capitulation to Allies of Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Soldiers in an armored personnel carrier approach the Italian Alps. Nazi officers, including field marshal Erwin Rommel, are seen outside a building. German soldiers mounted on a tank move into an Italian city as people wave to them. Soldiers fire, explosion occurs, and a pillar of smoke rises up. German forces occupy Reggio, Padua, and Milan. Germans in an armored personnel carrier approach the Arch of Peace/Porta Sempione (Piazza Sempione, 20154 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan. Soldiers fight in the streets of Rome. A building with a Nazi sign on its gates. German soldiers celebrate after taking over the city. They smoke. Soldiers with women outside a building and pull a kitten from their uniforms to present to her. Soldiers in a Jeep enter Rome with the Colosseum in the background.
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring reviews coastal defense in Italy during World War 2. Map of Italy and neighboring countries (written in German). Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Albert Kesselring reviews a coastal defense unit in Italy. General Kesselring salutes upon his arrival and walks. General Kesselring waves his baton while speaking. A young Wehrmacht soldier is introduced to General Kesselring. General Kesselring knocks the Stahlhelm helmet of a soldier. General Kesselring boards an SS staff car. Kesselring smiles as the car drives away. A soldier uses binoculars to observe the coast. A German soldier (wearing only white underwear) uses a field telephone. German soldiers (mostly underdressed) resting in a grove of trees. German soldiers prepare and clean artillery guns. Shirtless German soldiers eating grapes in Italy.
The Allied Forces crush the Axis troops in the Mediterranean during World War II. Italy surrenders. Newspapers in the U.S. show headlines of surrender of Italy. People in the streets read the newspapers. In New York the Americans of Italian descent celebrate Italy's surrender. Roll of honor. A child holds an American flag. American and Italian flags side by side. An Allied convoy moves towards North Africa. Allied troops land in North Africa. U.S. General Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander; British General Montgomery, commander 8th Army and Lieutenant General Clark, commander of U.S. 5th Army are shown. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister Churchill meet at Casablanca. Prelude to surrender- Allied planes drop bombs on islands off Italy. Allied warships off the coast of Sicily. Fighting off the coast. Sicily is invaded by the Allied troops. Americans land on shore. The U.S. 7th Army and the British 8th Army land on Italy's mainland behind a naval bombardment. The Allied soldiers in the streets. U.S. Army Corporal Salvatore DeMarco, of Italian origin, reunites with his family after having left home at age 15. German troops surrender to the U.S. troops and are sent out of the country in ships.
Units of the Italian fleet in Taranto harbor, Italy after the Italians surrender to the Allies during World War II. Italian cruisers and other ships in the harbor area. The bow of a ship underway. Men on the deck of the ship. The bridge of a ship underway.
Allied invasion at Salerno, Italy, during 2nd World War. Scenes of U.S. Sherman tanks, military vehicles and troops, moving easily through Sicily. Animated map depicts allied invasion routes from Bizerte, North Africa, to two points on opposite sides of Italy mainland. Convoys emerge from smoke screens in bay of Salerno, Italy. Allied warship creating heavy black smoke screen. Decks of LSTs crammed with trooops and vehicles. Allied warships bombard Salerno coastline. Commandos, Rangers and Seabees, in first assault wave are targets of German guns and dive bombers. Pontoon boat dropped from LST, with 35 Seabees aboard, strikes a mine, and is destroyed, setting off conflagration on the LST. Other LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) discharging vehicles to the beach over floating causeways, under enemy fire. Destroyed U.S. Sherman tanks, vehicles and a U.S. P-40 aircraft , litter the beach. A Seabee uses semaphore flags to direct an LST to beach area. Seabees build shelters for war materiel and dressing stations where allied wounded are treated. Seabees continue to unload supplies to beachhead. Brief view of Lieutenant General Mark Clark, 5th Army commander, on the beachhead. Allied casualties being tended. Stretcher bearers carry wounded. Allied troops advancing on roads in Italy. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, concludes narration of the Seabee documentary, from his office in Washington, DC
Film opens with animated map depicting paths of Allied forces invading Italy from Sicily. View from beach as American soldiers run ashore from landing craft. Shells explode nearby. Glimpse of large building with barbed wire strung in front and smoke rising from explosion. Soldier near a jeep under fire. Numerous others obscured by smoke as they wade ashore under fire. M4 Sherman tank being driven ashore from a Landing Ship Tank (LST). A soldier on shoreline signals with flags while standing in front of an LST with its ramp open. LST 375 is seen in background. American soldiers firing a 90 mm M1 anti-aircraft gun set up on the shore. Bomb exploding offshore. View from high above a city of a bomb striking and sinking an oil tanker ship. Another bomb exploding nearby. Dense black smoke billowing from a bombed ship in a harbor. More bombs exploding near ships.View from a ship as a bomb explodes only yards away from her. Smoke issuing from a bombed burning transport ship. A pair of wading M10 tank destroyers move along the beach. Soldiers ride on an M10 tank destroyer through an Italian town. Animated map shows range of Allied advance up Italy from the boot. It then shows a circling movement to strike at Nettuno, Italy. Views of American troops being welcomed in Nettuno. Glimpse of an Landing Ship Tank (LST) driving onto a beach.