The Italian Campaign during World War II. An American soldier inspects a damaged German Kettenkrad tracked motorcycle abandoned at a roadside. Allied truck, jeeps, halftracks, and towed field artillery moving along a road. Sign on road near destroyed buildings identifies Highway 7 and points to towns of Gaeta, Velletri, Albano, Genzano, and Rome. U.S. Sherman tank on road passing bombed out buildings. Allied military ambulances on the road. More views of destroyed buildings. A damaged Sherman tank. A damaged German tank. A U.S. soldier climbs out his bunker carved out of rubble.
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.
U.S. 7th Army troops march at embarkation point in Naples prior to the Allied invasion of France in World War II. Troops board LST (Landing Ship, Tank). Cub planes make landings on LST. Allied troops at rest and recreation. A pilot boards a Cub aboard LST. LST underway at sea. Pilots practice take off. Ships fire towards the Italian coasts. Amphibious assault team land at Italian coast to practice assault. Troops wade across water. Troops leave landing crafts. War ships approach the coast. Heavy blasts in coastal areas. Troops advance on the field.
Typhus epidemic strikes the city of Naples during World War II. Two men carry a patient on a stretcher into a hospital. Improvised history form of a patient who suffers from typhus. Rashes all over the chest of the patient. The eyes of the patient are checked. The patient's tongue is sticking out. The head of the patient is lifted up. The body temperature chart of the patient after diagnosis. Affected legs of the patient. Laboratory tests are carried out in critical diagnosis. Tube tests are carried out. A USA Typhus Commission 6-point typhus control chart.
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.
American troops along streets of Rome cheered by Italian civilians after Liberation of Rome during World War II. American soldiers march slowly along the street. American tanks with men atop pass by as people cheer. Monument of Victor Emmanuel II as seen from a narrow avenue. American vehicles with troops drive along a narrow lane in crowd. Huge crowd of Italians cheering. A few American vehicles with troops pass the Colosseum. Cheering Italian crowd around American tank with U.S. soldiers atop.