General Mark W. Clark boards a plane and arrives at Milan Airport, at the end of World War II. General Willis D. Crittenberger greets him. General Clark, Lieutenant General Sir Richard L. G. McCreery and General Crittenberger sit in a Jeep. They inspect honor guard composed of troops and tanks of various nationalities including South African, British, Brazilian etc.
Benito Mussolini arrives and presents prizes to the Battle of Wheat winners in Rome's Argentina Theater. Dignitaries and guests at a big amphitheater stand and welcome Italian dictator Mussolini. Prize winners arrive one after the other, he shakes hands and presents the prizes.
Edward Crook, American athlete and Cassius M. Clay, American boxer (later Muhammad Ali) with gold medals around their necks sign autographs at Rome Olympics. Wilbert J. McClure joins them and they look at each others medals. Crook and Clay talk together, joke, and laugh. Their coach Julius Menendez also joins them. Menendez speaks to Edward Crook.
Representatives of different countries look at pistol shoot scoreboard at Rome Olympics. Winners of small bore pistol shoot presented medals at a ceremony. Men stand on winner's stand. Winners presented flowers as flags of their nations are hoisted.
Typhus epidemic strikes the city of Naples during World War II. Two men carry a patient on a stretcher into a hospital. Improvised history form of a patient who suffers from typhus. Rashes all over the chest of the patient. The eyes of the patient are checked. The patient's tongue is sticking out. The head of the patient is lifted up. The body temperature chart of the patient after diagnosis. Affected legs of the patient. Laboratory tests are carried out in critical diagnosis. Tube tests are carried out. A USA Typhus Commission 6-point typhus control chart.
Typhus epidemic strikes the city of Naples during World War II. Members of American Typhus control crew give DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) dustings to prisoners in a local jail. An ambulance moves out of a 'Delousing Service Depot' in Naples. Dusting crew on a rail road car. Crew from U.S. flying squadrons delouse children. Booster shots are given to U.S. military personnel. A policeman and a civilian. A chart shows the number of patients before delousing and vaccination and the fall in the number of patients after delousing and vaccination. Italian people and children on streets. Views of happy children. A boy turns the large wheel on a hand cranked barrel piano (precursor to the player piano) in the street to make it play music. Various views of Naples.
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