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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.
Crowd cheering as British Army soldiers on M4 tanks move through the streets in Naples, Italy.
British Army M4 Sherman tanks and universal carriers in Naples, Italy. Cheering crowd claps and shouts as the soldiers on the tanks pass through the streets. Views of bombed city, army trucks, armored cars and jeeps standing, smoke rising from the top Vesuvius in background and soldiers walking through ruins. (World War II period).
Bombing of Capadichino Airdrome near Naples Italy.
Aerial views of the Capadichino Airdrome near Naples, Italy. U.S. 12th Army Air Force 32nd Bombardment Squadron starts bombing over the airdrome. Bombs seen headed toward ground. Smoke rising from the airstrip. Bombing targets German aircraft in a camouflaged area beside the airdrome. (World War II period).
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.