Manufacturing of Italian heavy artillery gun barrels during World War I. Barrels are turned on lathes and rifled. Interior of rifled barrel with spiral rifling shown. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Manufacturing of Italian munitions during World War I. Women work on machines as they manufacture shells at an ammunition plant. Men operate machines as shells remain piled up. Women perform machining operations and arrange shells in racks. Shells and powder charges weighed as women pack powder charges. Shells processed on a machine. Men wearing mask as they perform a phase of shell assembly. Shells inspected by men and prepared for shipment. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Manufacturing of Italian ammunition during World War I. A group of munitions workers pose for picture. They are mostly women and children but include some men. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A man hammers a limestone piece to crush it to manufacture glass for military purpose in World War 1. Men work on circular glass sheets. Glass undergoes processing with the help of machines. Lenses inspected. Glass sheets grinded and polished. Glass used to manufacture products like mirror, searchlight and window glass. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Steel plates fabricated for use in ships and submarines. Submarines are seen at dockside. A large ship is launched, not yet outfitted. Observers watch from small boat. A destroyer cruises by at high speed, smoke billowing from its stack. A heavy cruiser fires guns. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Benito Mussolini head of the Italian Social Republic, meets with his cabinet during World War II. Among notables attending the cabinet meeting, are Defense Minister Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and Cabinet vice-chairman, Francesco Maria Barracu who confer before the meeting and with Mussolini during the meeting. Change of scene to Marshal Graziani being greeted by German military officers as he enters a building to confer with Marshal Erwin Rommel and his staff who were sent to oversee the bolstering of Italian defenses. Marshal Graziani confers with the German officers. Marshal Rommel bids him farewell as he leaves the building. Rommel and accompanying German staff officers leave in a car to inspect Italian defenses (possibly Liguria region). They observe Italian workers building concrete fortifications. They visit sites where a German sentry is seen walking along a fortification wall and German troops are seen manning a variety of heavy guns in coastal defenses.
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