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Italian Premier, Benito Mussolini, assists farmers during the first harvest of wheat from the reclaimed farmland of the Pontine marshes

View of farm workers standing atop a pile of wheat sheaves on a threshing machine. This is the first wheat harvest from farms in the reclaimed Pontine marshes of Italy. The Italian flag is raised above them. Several photographers are taking pictures from the ground. Benito Mussolini in working clothes, is amongst the workers on the threshing platform, just below the pile of sheaves. Closeup shows women on the platform receiving sheaves of wheat handed down to them from people atop the pile. Mussolini feeds the sheaves into the thresher. He wears a short sleeved shirt, a neckerchief, and has goggles pushed up on his forehead. Camera moving around the rig, as work is in progress, shows it proceeding rapidly, with Mussolini working very hard. Sometime(unseen) Mussoline has donned a wide brimmed straw farm hat. At the end, Mussolini stands up on the platform, removes his hat and shakes hands with a farmer standing next to him. (Reportedly he worked the whole morning.)

Date: 1934, July
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029847
British troops heading towards Salerno Beach on Landing Ship Tank (LST)

British troops sail towards Salerno Beach in Salerno Italy. View of British troops and vehicles aboard a Land Ship Tank (LST). Soldiers observe the other ships in the flotilla from the deck side. Soldiers play cards relax and sit on bags. Several soldiers stand near the edge of the deck area. One soldier sits on a bag and pets a small dog. Army trucks in the background on deck. Soldiers sitting in a line (chow line) eat and afterwards drink from mugs. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, October 28
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030849
British LST heading toward Salerno Beach

British warships sailing towards Salerno Beach in Salerno Italy. Soldiers fire from anti-aircraft guns mounted on the deck sides. View of smoke rising from another ship, soldier talks over radio, and several army trucks parked on the Landing Ship Tank (LST). Troopships, assault boats, and Destroyers visible in the flotilla. Warships heading towards the Salerno harbor. A soldier with a bandaged hand drinks from a bottle. The LST captain looks through binoculars. Text LST-2 written on the bow of the ship. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, October 28
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030850
Operations of British and Italian troops at the captured Montecorvino Airfield

British soldiers at the captured Montecorvino Airfield near Salerno, Italy. Two soldiers standby at antiaircraft artillery. One is looking through binoculars. Soldiers place a windsock on the ground. A British Spitfire plane lands on the airfield. Pilot gets down from cockpit. Italian officers demonstrate to British officers the disassembly of a German bomb. A man fuels the spitfire and it takes off again. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, September 8
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030856
Lieutenant General George S. Patton presents Silver Stars to members of the U.S. Army 39th Infantry, 9th Division, during World War II

Lieutenant General George S. Patton addresses troops from an outdoor stage and then awards Silver Stars for gallantry to members of the U.S. Army 39th Infantry, 9th Division, in Capo Playa, near Cefalu, Italy. Patton awards the medals and then the soldiers form into groups from their respective home states, which include New Jersey, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. The army band is seen standing near the soldiers. The soldiers parade in front of the officers. Awarded soldiers take off their helmets and pose for photographers. Close-ups of soldiers with medals while flags from the honor guard wave in background. (World War 2. WWII. WW2.)

Date: 1943, October 3
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030881
The Allied Military Government (AMG) begins immediate efforts to cleanup and rebuild Liberated areas of Sicily in World War II.

Allied Military Government efforts to rebuild Sicily after capturing it from Axis forces during World War 2. Italian men needing employnent board an open truck for transport to a job site. Workers standing with American soldiers preparing to work. A huge crowd of men pushing and shoving outside an Allied Military Government (AMG) labor hiring headquarters where they were offered decent wages to begin rebuilding after the war's destruction. Italian men, as well as American soldiers, rebuilding roads in the Alpine region of Italy, where German forces had destroyed them as they withdrew. U.S. Army engineers using a bulldozer, to clear and smooth a road. A large dump truck spreading new gravel for a highway bed. A team of workers manning a cable to pull down a damaged portion of a building. A British Army officer and a Colonial soldier in a turban, set explosive charges to destroy a bomb-damaged building. They detonate the charges and bring down the entire large building. Bulldozers at work on huge piles of rubble. A steam shovel being employed to clear large piles of debris. Men at work in Palermo, to clear entire streets buried in rubble. Men clearing rubble near piles of twisted steel building girders. Rubble being moved by horse-drawn carts and dumped into the sea. Italian masons at work building new homes and refurbishing old ones. In views three months after the original Allied landing in Sicily during July,1943, Palermo is seen well on the way to restoration. School children, including girls with brooms, walking to a place needing cleanup. Views of them cleaning steps and windows. Citizens picking up debris from streets and sidewalks. A man using a hose to clean a street and sidewalk in the city.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035963