Naples after the Fifth Army enters, Italy during World War II. Civilians walk along the streets. Men and women walk on streets. Horse drawn carts loaded with material stand along the streets of Naples.
Naples after the Fifth Army enters, Italy during World War II. Workers load material into a two and half ton DUKW amphibious vehicle alongside a supply ship. Worker himself climbs the hoist and drops into DUKW along with material. A DUKW drives away and another replaces it. Crowd of civilians lined near a truck for ration and food distribution. Old and young men in line wait for their chance.
Naples after the Fifth Army enters in it, Italy during World War II. An LSI lands at dock of Naples. GIs loaded into the LSI debark and walk along the pier. GI debark carrying war material bags. Several LSIs at the dock. Troops of GIs land on the pier.
Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair visits the Twentieth Army Headquarters area. General McNair arrives escorted by other officers at the headquarters and visits various tents in the area. He talks with other officers.
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.
Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.
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