Boats at waters edge in cove of Italian sea. Children play in cove as a woman stands near them. Houses on the shore. A boat underway in water, carrying Eva's women friends who drink Chianti wine from a bottle.One woman tunes a radio. Eva Braun and another woman play with a cat on a bench. Women try on lace collars. Eva's friend poses in sunlit grotto. (Note: This place in the PIazzetta of Portofino dominated by the castle. Surrounding is the Natural Park of Portofino created by Mussolini.)
High aerial views and views from a low flying airplane, of Allied warships in the bay of Naples during World War II.
Pope Paul VI meets the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsay, in Vatican City. Anglican Church Archbishop Michael Ramsay visits Rome and the Vatican. Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Ramsay sit and talk to each other during their meeting. Pope Paul VI gets up from his chair and greets Archbishop Ramsay with symbolic Kiss of Peace.
Ruins of Sicily after Allied bombings of World War II. Wrecked boats and a sunken ship at a beach in Sicily. Italian kids walk through debris on a beach. Men examine a large wrecked boat. Italian boys in a wrecked boat. Boys swim.
Last leg of transatlantic flight by Roger Q Williams and Captain Lewis A Yancey arriving land in Rome after brief stop in Spain, on their flight from Old Orchard, Maine. They are seen by their Bellanca monoplane named "Pathfinder." Another scene shows Benito Mussolini, dressed in white suit and hat, standing with other officials, awaiting arrival of the aviators. (After 2 hours he must leave and doesn't get to greet them personally.) Night scene of the aviators with Italian crowd of admirers. A large bonfire is lit nearby. Photographers in the crowd.
Film opens with Allied soldiers looking at an Fw 190A-5 of SchlG 2. (Schlachtgeschwader 2) Immelmann, a Luftwaffe Dive bomber-wing.The Gruppe insignia, of Mickey Mouse riding a bomb and brandishing an axe, is displayed on both sides of the plane, near the engine cowling. Inside a hangar, a Ju-88 bomber is seen with left wing elevator missing as well as other parts. Camera shifts to another Ju-88 sitting nearby. Scene shifts to two soldiers, in shorts and knee socks (British?) standing partially under a wrecked German plane. Some bombs sit on the ground under the plane. They watch as an American soldier digs on the side of a bomb, with a large knife, apparently trying to test the composition of the bomb, or possible remove something. Next, a soldier in shorts is seen descending from the Ju-88, onto a maintenance stand underneath it. He walks toward the camera holding his hand up (almost as if to ask the cameraman not to photograph him). Scene shifts to beneath a Junkers Ju-52 transport plane, with "Kaltstart,"stenciled on its fuselage. The American soldier, with the big knife, digs at a darkened area on the bottom of the plane, cutting away a patch that reveals a bullet hole that had been patched.
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