Men gather around a Wright Flyer airplane in beginning of film. Wilber Wright poses by the plane for photographers. Next the aircraft rolls forward with Wright at the controls and an Italian Army officer beside him. The motion picture begins at takeoff and shows a man on horseback below and other objects including a large walled-in-ruins.
Newly installed Badoglio II government leaders convene in Salerno, Italy. Cabinet Ministers Benedetto Croce, Palmitro Togliatti and Count Carlo Sforza, along with two others, converse in the lobby of the Salerno Municipio building (Via Roma, 84121 Salerno SA, Italy). Other dignitaries moving in background. One of them smokes a cigarette while conversing.
Lt Colonel John T Whitaker speaks before a map on OSS morale operations in Italy. The map points Palermo, Sicily, Tunis, Bizerte and other places. Colonel outlines OSS propaganda and psychological warfare operations during the allied invasions of Sicily and Italy proper. He explains leaflets techniques and rumor spreading by OSS infiltration teams and the use of clandestine radios. Airplanes in flight drop leaflets. People walk. A man reads a leaflet. (World War II period).
Rise of Benito Mussolini after World War I and taking Italy to World War II. Benito Mussolini and the Blackshirts parade in Rome when the Fascist Party comes to power after ousting Italian Prime Minister Luigi Facta in October 1922. Civilians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party parade in the 'March on Rome' when Mussolini takes over the government. Cheering civilians surround Mussolini as he exits from a building. The Blackshirts parade. Mussolini speaks from a balcony. A large crowd gives the Fascist salute at one of Mussolini's mass meetings. Crowds gathered at the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. Members of the Fascist Youth parade on the streets. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler deplanes from a Deutsche Luft Hansa plane in Venice and meets Italian Prime Minister Mussolini for the first time. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gian Galeazzo Ciano and Mussolini and staff review troops. Mussolini shakes hands with Hitler, surrounded by Italian notables. A Royal Box at a ceremony shows Hitler, Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Queen Elena of Montenegro. An Italian tank review near the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine in Rome (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Italian crack troops goose-step past the Royal Box for Hitler to review the soldiers. The Munich Conference shows Hitler, Mussolini, Prime Minister of France Eduard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain among others. Mussolini signs the Munich Pact. Mussolini delivers a speech from his balcony at the Palazzo Venezia. Crowds acclaim Mussolini in the Piazza Venezia and the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy).
Italians shopping for American appliances at an electronics store in Italy. Signs hanging on the appliance store reads “Elettrodomestici” (“Appliances”), “Frigoferi” (“refrigerator”) and “Cucini e Gas” (“cooking range and gas”). A salesman demonstrates a small refrigerator to two women and a man. People view the content of a refrigerator. A salesman demonstrates a gas range to a woman. A couple looking at a overhead refrigerator. A woman closes the lid and pushes buttons of a washing machine. A woman turns on a gas circulator heater. Woman typing on a typewriter. A saleslady shows a pair of floral slippers to a woman. Italian-made purses. Italian-made rolls of fabric in floral and modern patterns. A salesman fixes American-made nylon fabric for a customer. A women’s nightdress on display in the shop desk. Fabrics with frilly lining. Cars and pedestrians pass by the Milan Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy). View of the Breda Tower in Milan (Piazza della Repubblica, 20124 Milano MI, Italy). Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi introduces a visiting American physicist, professor and Fulbright U.S. scholar Herbert L. Anderson. Professor Amaldi and Herbert Anderson speaks about physics in front of machines. Anderson spoke in Italian, saying that he is content working with Italian scientists.
German soldiers at Cassino front in Italy during World War II. A map locates sites in Italy. Close up views of the heavily damaged Monte Cassino Abbey and Cassino town ruins. Rubble all over the area from Allied bombing of the site. Crater field in front of the Cassino mountain area. Smoke arises from bombardment. German soldiers including paratroopers from 1st Parachute Division use a sighting device to locate Allied forces and plot artillery fire. Germans fire artillery at a patrol of four U.S. Sherman tanks. A German soldier smiles and smokes a cigarette. Allied gunners put down a smoke barrage to permit recovery. German soldiers firing mortars and machine guns at Allied forces through the smoke curtain, including point of view (POV) shot of Germans operating machine guns.
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