Activities of Italian soldiers in Italy during World War II. An Italian battleship at a harbor. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler aboard the battleship with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Hitler comes up on the deck and salutes and shakes hands with Mussolini. Italian ships and submarines. Two bombers in flight over the ships which are covered with smoke. Two old passenger vessels are used as targets. Aerial bombs burst around the ships. Italian troops parade. An ancient Roman structure in the background. Italian troops parade past a grandstand.
U.S. Army Piper Cub plane (L-4 liaison aircraft) in flight over flat fields in Italy, during World War II. Aerial view of fields. Pilot of plane during flight. The Piper Cub buzzes herd of sheep grazing in fields. Two men stand by herd of sheep. Men on ground wave at the plane.
U.S. Army Piper L-4 Cub and Stinson L-5 Liasion planes parked in line on rocky field in Italy, during World War 2. Several of them taxi and takeoff. Spitfires in the background.
Piper L-4 Cub plane approaches an airfield at a U.S. Army camp in Italy. The landing gear collapses upon landing. The pilot, an Army artilleryman, is helped out of plane by other soldiers, who inspect it and them move it out of the way.
A crashed Piper Cub plane (L-4 Liaison aircraft) on grass field in Italy during World War 2. The L-4 is fastened to a tow truck for removal. Soldiers unbolt portions of undercarriage and and make other preparations for towing. Plane is hooked up. Another L-4 lands on the field.
A crashed U.S. Army Stinson L-5 Sentinel airplane, serial number 42-98969, upside down on a field in Italy, during World War 2. Pilot lying on ground checks his hand. Soldiers around flipped plane. The inverted plane is righted and set on its landing gear by soldiers using ropes. (Note: Opening slate, naming Lt. Montagne, refers to Lt. Ed Montagne, 196th Signal Photo Co, .who reportedly went on to produce the TV Series McHale's Navy during the 1960s.)