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Fighting in Italian mainland during the World War II and the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces Italy's surrender.

The Allied Forces crush the Axis armies in the Mediterranean during World War II. Italy surrenders. The Allied Forces enter Messina. The American flag flies over the municipal corporation of Messina. U.S. soldiers interact with local Italian citizens and greet children. Soldier talking to a a young Italian girl. Wrecked German ships in a harbor. An Allied soldier talks on a radio. Fighting in Italian mainland. Scenes of Mussolini walking. Italians throw mud on the posters of Mussolini. An Italian writes Viva England, Viva USA and USSR on a wall. An animated map shows Allied attack on the German positions in Italy. General Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces and British Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander in Chief of the Allied Naval Forces in the Mediterranean. Surrendered Italian fleet of ships underway toward Allied controlled ports. From Washington DC U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces (armistice) surrender of Italy.

Date: 1943, September
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033557
Newsreel 'Latest films from Sicily' during World War 2

General George Patton is welcomed at Palermo in Sicily and meets with Catholic Church Cardinal Lavitrano. Army Engineers construct mountain highways. The crew is seen working and using dynamite charges in mountain side to more quickly build a road bed for advancing supplies. Road building machinery at work. Bridges are constructed. Captured Italian soldiers and Italian officers are marched as prisoners of war in Sicily.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040771
United States 7th Army troops advance through Sicilian villages

United States 7th Army troops advance through Sicilian villages. 7th Army troops on streets. Houses in the background. Wounded U.S. soldiers loaded on planes for evacuation. Aircrafts in flight. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041592
President Roosevelt and General Eisenhower review 7th Army in Sicily in World War 2

U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt with Prime Minister of Britain Winston Churchill at the Sphinx in Egypt, and later, at a meeting with Turkey's President Mustafa Ismet Inonu. Later President Roosevelt reviews 7th Army in Sicily, from a jeep. He is accompanied by General Eisenhower, who sits in back of jeep next to Presidential Assistant, Harry Hopkins. President Roosevelt decorates General Mark Clark and five of his officers. General Clark receives the Distinguished Service Cross A man takes photographs. Seventh Army Troops march past. President Roosevelt and General Eisenhower eat a picnic lunch in a staff car with the doors open. President Roosevelt seated with his sons, Elliot and Franklin, Jr.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041820
German forces defending against Allies during invasion of Sicily in Operation Husky of World War II

Axis defensive operations against Allied forces during the Italian campaign of World War 2. German Air Force Junkers Ju-52 transport planes take off from their base in Messina, Sicily, carrying members of their 1st Parachute Division to bolster defenses against the Allies who have begun amphibious landings in the South, during Operation Husky. A Closeup aerial view in a formation of Ju-52s flying low over water. Glimpse of German paratroopers inside one of the planes. View from below of paratroopers jumping from their planes, and their chutes descending over hilly terrain. But they are seen landing in fields, as the formation of transport planes flies away overhead. View from the ground of German Heinkel He 111 H-20/R1 aircraft dropping paratroopers, whose chutes are seen descending and landing in hilly terrain. Military equipment being dropped by parachute. The German paratroops gathering up their gear and heading to join their comrades. One is seen sipping fresh water from a mountain stream. View from the German positions of British and American positions being shelled by German artillery. German parachute infantry moving through sandy areas and underbrush. View from inside a German bunker. German artilleryman directing fire from a heavy field gun. German artillery putting up strong defense near Mt. Etna. British soldiers taken prisoners of war. German gunners, some stripped to the waist, firing heavy guns against British and American troops.

Date: 1943, July
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675041935
Pontoon section launched from side of LST.

U.S. troops aboard deck of LST (Landing Craft, Tank). LST underway at sea. Ships of invasion force underway. LC (Landing Craft) underway at sea. Pontoon section launched from side of LST. PC (Patrol Craft) underway. Other LC (Landing Craft) and auxiliary ships in the background. Pontoon section alongside LST. Soldiers on deck of the ship close ashore. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, July 10
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051855