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.
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.
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.
German soldiers emerge from underground bunker, move through trench to respond to Allied invasion of Sicily in World War II. Leaning on a trench parapet, a German soldier fires his MG34 machine gun at incoming American troops. Allied troops and vehicles move through beachhead in Sicily during invasion.
Crowds gathered in the Saint Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City) in the Vatican City to celebrate Rome’s liberation from Germany during World War II. Pope Pius XII blessing the crowds gathered in Saint Peter's Square from the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica. Crowds cheering in front of the Saint Peter’s Basilica. Bells from Roman Catholic churches ring to celebrate liberation.