Post war snapshots of Eboli, Italy in World War II. Signboard of Eboli is seen. Views of the Monumento Ai Caduti (Piazza della Repubblica, 84025 Eboli SA, Italy). A damaged building and an old woman walking in ruins. Destroyed buildings and people searching in ruins. Women carry water pots on their head walk through ruins. Scenes of wrecked buildings, people walking with their belongings and children sitting with old women in ruins.
Wreckage in an area near the Sele River in Eboli, Italy during World War 2. A sign on a wall reads 'Campagna'. A man shovels amongst ruins in the foreground. Men clear debris. A discarded picture of Mussolini lying on a heap of rubble. A bullet ridden sign on a highway reads 'Eboli'. Wrecked city of Eboli.
U.S. Army officers engage in strategical discussions in Eboli, Italy during World War II. General Mark W Clark, Air Marshal Arthur W. Tedder along with other two British Army officers observes maps and discuss. General Clark seen with other officers looking in maps near an army jeep. A soldier holding gun and standing in rear near the tree. General Clark look carefully in map while another officer with pen shows some specifications. Several soldiers from 30th Infantry Division standing in background. General Clark walks under shade, shake hands with other army personal, discuss and walk away along others. Two army personals standing near a wrecked building while General Clark comes out from a building, gets in the army jeep and moves away. Views of destroyed buildings and soldiers on streets. Signboard of Eboli is seen.
A U.S. Army jeep passing by a signboard for Battipaglia in Italy, during World War 2. Views of the wrecked buildings and men walking through debris. Children at the destroyed Battipaglia train station. Army jeeps and trucks moving through the streets. Sign "Eboli" seen in background on a building. Boats, trucks, and other vehicles parked in the harbor area of Taranto, Italy. People walking and working at harbor.
On 12 December, 1944, at an airport in Naples, Italy, British General Sir Henry Nathan Wilson inspects an honor guard of American Military Policemen in formation. (Narrator states he is en route to replace the late Field Marshal Sir John Dill, in Washington, DC, USA) A contingent of British troops is also present as part of the honor guard, on the wet airport tarmac. (Narrator states that Wilson will head the British Joint Staff Mission and be personal military representative for Prime Minister Winston Churchill.) He approaches a line of U.S. military officers who salute him. Closeup of General Wilson With U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker, next to U.S. Vice Admiral Kent Hewitt. Also with them (back to camera) is British Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet. Next, General Wilson and his party are seen boarding a British Avro York four-engine Heavy Transport aircraft. View from the ground, of the aircraft cockpit and the engines running as it taxis out for takeoff. Change of scene shows troops gathered in open air battlefield environment. General Mark Clark, now Commander-in-Chief of the Allied 15th Army Group, decorates some members of the 5th Army, as General Lucian King Truscott Jr. (new 5th Army Commander) stands by his side. General Clark says farewell to members of the 5th Army and shakes hands with many of them. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
U.S. soldiers insert charges into rockets and then load them into a multi-barrel rocket launcher mounted on a 37mm gun carriage, set up on the shore at Viareggio, Italy in World War 2. They load the 4.5 mm rockets into the firing tubes. Next the rockets are seen being fired by a soldier from a remote position. (Ordnance and Artillery Sections of the U.S. 5th Army developed this rocket launcher.)
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