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U.S. 5th Army enters Naples, Italy and people welcome them during World War II.
The Allied Campaign in Italy during World War II. United States 5th Army enters Naples on 1st October, 1943. People welcome the army. Women wave the American flag from a balcony of a building. A sunken ship in a harbor. Italian civilians return to their homes in Naples. A farm house damaged by the Germans. Men remove debris and dead bodies. A dead child. Dead bodies lying on ground. Men cover the dead with a sheet.
American Undersecretary of War speaks to difficulties facing Allies in confronting Germany and Japan in World War II
Undersecretary of War, Robert Porter Patterson, Sr. speaks about a report from the General staff outlining the needs for combating Germany and Japan in World War 2. He cites Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, as an example of what will be needed. He continues to narrate in the background as an animated map appears showing the buildup of supplies and Allied forces in North Africa; Allied air forces flying 60 thousand sorties over Sicily and, the direct amphibious assault using 3,200 vessels. Map also depicts opposing forces of 12 (“unwilling”) Italian Divisions and 3-1/2 German Divisions. View of Allied troops carrying some of their 31 thousand casualties on stretchers from field ambulances. Allied medics attending to the wounded. Some are seen lying on stretchers in a row on the ground near a wall. Interior of a field hospital where surgeons and other medical personnel treat the wounded. Animated map shifts to Europe with Germany at its center, showing , in contrast to Sicily that was only an “outpost,”, the heavily fortified perimeter of Axis controlled areas; the axis industrial might; and the disposition of 300 German Divisions (mostly on the Eastern front) defending the region. Next, the map illustrates Japan’s defended regions in the Pacific Image returns to Undersecretary Patterson i n his office, speaking of the Allied offensives planned for next year (1944), and emphasizing their challenge and difficulty. Scene shifts to General Jonathan Wainwright and his garrison at Corregidor, in the Philippines, surrendering to Japanese forces in 1941. Japanese military camera pans over the Americans being taken prisoner. Other Americans and Filipinos are seen being marched together under guard. Scene shifts to classic views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. View of Japanese soldiers executing two Chinese civilians in 1937. Dangling bodies of persons hung by Nazis during Operation Barbarossa in Russia, in 1941 A Russian soldier comforts a little girl as he escorts her across a snowy landscape. Time bomb left by German forces retreating from Naples, Italy, in 1943, blows up a Post office building . Views of damage to building and bodies of victims. American Military Police assisting a victim. American soldiers carrying an injured civilian on a litter. Scene shifts to British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, and U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, entering a hall in the Spiridonovka Palace, during the 1943 Moscow Conference in Russia. Close-up of the American, Soviet, and British flags on a table. View of many delegates seated around the table. Close-up of Molotov, Eden, and Hull signing conference document.
Civilians give a warm welcome to Allied troops in Naples, Italy during World War II.
Allied troops enter Naples, Italy during World War II. Allied soldiers in trucks driven past cheering Italians. Soldiers rest against stone buildings along the road. Women in a balcony wave and cheer. Children run down a street as they cheer. People lined up along a street to welcome the Allied troops. Italians shake hands with Allied soldiers and offer wine to a truck driver. An American soldier holds an Italian baby.
Italian civilians greet the first units of U.S. 5th Army entering Naples, Italy during World War II.
United States 5th Army troops enter Naples, Italy during World War II. Troops and army vehicles enter Naples. Tanks roll into the city. U.S. troops on guard. Ships and boats at the port of Naples. Soldiers in Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi. The statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi is seen. Italian civilians greet the first units of the 5th Army entering Naples. Cheering civilians on the street.
Howitzer in forest, firing on target and receiving directions on phone via liaison plane,Naples Italy.
Naples Italy during World War II. 8" Howitzer under cover of trees, firing at a target. U.S. Army soldiers talk on field radio phone and receive directions from a liaison plane. Soldier read maps and plot coordinates for firing of howitzer. American soldiers look through sights of the Howitzer and adjust controls. View through howitzer barrel shows rifling inside. View of liaison planes parked in a field.
Mussolini and Hitler review a naval maneuver as ships pass in review in Naples, Italy during World War II.
Italian naval maneuvers in Naples, Italy during World War II. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, King Victor Emanuel III of Italy and Crown Prince Umberto aboard a vessel in Naples. Hitler comes aboard an Italian battleship and being greeted by Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. They greet each other with Nazi and Roman salutes. Italian speedboats race across a bay. A convoy underway at sea as smoke rises from vessels. Italian ships pass in review off the coast of Naples. Sailors lined up on the deck of the ships as they pass in review. A seaplane in flight.