Major General William Beverly Campbell, Lieutenant General Mark William Clark and other officers arrives by jeep at 5th Army held buildings in Florence, Italy, during World War 2. Light snow covers the ground. General Campbell and party inspect various ordnance installations. Cars of Campbell and officers pass past building. They go to General Clark's mess hall. Campbell gets in jeep.
Gas workers strike in Rome, Italy. Gas workers sit on road. A man sits with a whistle in his mouth. Policemen stand in crowd. They help him stand. Crowd on road. They protest with placards in hand.
Film opens with view from a high point of the city of Rome, Italy. St. Peter's Basilica is seen in the background. Camera focuses on a group of men crowded together in a fenced area atop a construction project. Closer view reveals Benito Mussolini wielding a pick alongside other workers. After a moment, he puts the pick down and goes to the end of the area where he stands on something to make him visible above the others, and gives a fascist salute. View of St. Peter's from the elevated work site. Closeup of ordinary workers clearing rubble from the construction site. Film goes black momentarily and then shows the crowded work site seen in the earlier footage. Mussolini is handed the pick and uses it for a longer time than previously shown. He and others leave the work site. More views of St. Peter's Basilica. Views of trams and light traffic on a street below. More views of apartment houses and St. Peter's. Film interrupted and then shows closeup of men working on the construction site.
Statue of the Roman poet, Horace, who wrote of the scarcity of water in Apulia. Villagers drawing water from a communal well. A woman waters crop from a bucket. Villagers gather as officials open tap of new water supply provided with help from America. The supply comes from a 700 mile aquaduct that brings water across the Appenine mountains from other side of Italy. Scenes of Apulia inundated by flood waters during two months of rainy season. Men at work building dikes to control flooding.
Convoy of French 2nd Moroccan Division equipped with American clothing and equipment, crosses a pontoon bridge over Volturno River near Dragoni, Caserta, Italy during World War II. A destroyed concrete building in the background. The French Driven convoy of U.S. trucks, Jeeps, DUKWs (amphibious trucks) and half-tracks passes through wet and muddy roads of the village of Dragoni.
Convoy of French 2nd Moroccan Division equipped with American clothing and equipment, passes through the heavily shelled village of Alvignano, Caserta, Italy during World War II. Troops of Morocco standing along roadside converse with each other as the French driven convoy of U.S. trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, DUKWs (amphibious trucks) and half-tracks passes the village . A destroyed concrete building in the background.
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