Civilians empty their village in Italy due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Hot lava pushes through the streets of the village and destroys everything in its path. A wall of a building cracks and tumbles. Smoke and dust in the streets. Cracks on the buildings.
Hot lava of Mount Vesuvius destroys a town in Italy. Fire from lava destroys an orchard. Hot lava pushes through streets of the town and destroys everything in its path. A building tumbles down. Smoke and dust in the streets. A wall with a statue of Jesus Christ falls down. (World War II period).
Hot lava from Mount Vesuvius destroys a town in Italy. Hot lava in the streets of the town. Damaged buildings and ruins of the buildings. Women watch from a balcony at a hilltop. Children sit and watch. Civilians carry their belongings.
P-47 aircraft strafes transport truck on a road in Italy. Aircraft strafes road, large clouds of smoke rises. P-47 strafes transport truck on road and barges in canal. P-47 dives on road, strafing truck and motorcycles on road.
Ruins at a port town of Italy during World War2. Aerial views of bombed bridges as seen from a low flying plane. Wrecked railroad train and cut rails. Wrecked bridge. Civilians walking on streets in a wrecked port town with rubble from bombing visible. Civilians in street.
Scenes of destruction in Italy, during World War 2. Partially obscured by foliage, a ship is seen, anchored in cove on Italian shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Wrecked buildings at the shore. A destroyer (probably British) seen briefly offshore . An old woman. Refugees at side of road near a Bailey bridge over the Garigliano river. Sign reads: "Kimble Bridge." Woman with baby. Vehicles pass over the bridge. Civilians walk in streets. Horse-drawn cart passes. A young boy takes the hand of a little girl, as they walk through rubble strewn street and he guides her as they skirt around a skeleton in the rubble. Military tent set up with mosquito netting. ( Note: the area shown is likely in the vicinity of Monturno, near where the Garigliano river empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea. As part of the heavily defended German Gustav Line, this area suffered great destruction during World War 2.)