Italian T3 Scorpion mine detonator in Sicily, Italy during World War II. The T3 Scorpion mine detonator moves towards a barbed wire fence as smoke rises. Explosions occur and billows of smoke rise up as mines are being detonated on a field. The smoke rises as the mines are detonated.
Italian naval maneuvers in Civitavecchia, Italy during World War II. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Soldiers on the terrace of a building to watch the naval maneuvers. Two aircraft in flight as smoke puffs rise from the coast below. The smoke rises as chemical shells burst in a valley during the maneuvers as Mussolini and Hitler review. Billows of smoke rise up as explosions occur at sea. A boat in the foreground. Two passenger ships being bombarded and pillars of smoke rise up.
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.
A gift being presented to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Germany in February, 1942. German soldiers lined up in a courtyard as a car arrives. Norwegian Prime minister Vidkun Quisling climbs up the stairs of a building. Interiors of the building as Quisling shake hands with Hitler. He presents him a model of a Viking ship.
A Japanese submarine in a German harbor on September 30, 1942 during World War II. A German ship in the foreground and the Japanese submarine in the background. Nazi naval officers lined up on the deck of the ship as they salute the Japanese crew on the deck of the submarine. Nazi officers come aboard the submarine and review the Japanese crew. German and Japanese officers pose. A girl presents flowers to a Japanese officer. Japanese officers talk to a German Naval officer.
Benito Mussolini arrives in a German Junkers Ju-52 aircraft, at an airport serving Adolf Hitler's Eastern Front headquarters (Wolf's Lair) near Rastenburg, Poland, a month after being rescued by German commandos from imprisonment in the Campo Imperatore Hotel, high in the Italian Apennine Mountains, during World War 2. He is warmly greeted by Adolf Hitler (who personally ordered the rescue mission). Mussolini's son, Vittorio, also greets him. Hitler escorts Mussolini to a staff car bearing both the Italian and German (Swastika) flags. The car arrives at the Wolf's Lair, and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop greets Mussolini as he steps from the car. Hitler escorts Mussolini into the building. Next, Reichmarshal Hermann Goering is seen pointing out something to Mussolini. Change of scene shows Mussolini in hat and overcoat being escorted by Hitler, out to their waiting staff car. Back at the airport, Mussolini says his goodbyes to German officers and Hitler. He boards the Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft which taxis out as Hitler waves goodbye.
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