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German and Italian aircraft dive through intense flak to bomb a British convoy underway in the Strait of Sicily.

A naval-air battle in the Strait of Italy during World War II. A formation of Italian and German bombers over the Strait of Italy. Ships of a British convoy underway. British ships fire antiaircraft guns at Italian aircraft. Flak bursts in the sky. Italian bombers bomb the ships. Explosions near and on the ships. British ships are heavily bombed by a large number of Italian bombers. Many ships sink after exploding. Smoke billows up from the ships afire. Italian MASs (torpedo armed motorboats) head for a British convoy. British ships are torpedoed. Smoke rises after explosions on the ships. The bombing of the convoy continues at night. Interiors of an Italian submarine shows its crew members at work. A list of claimed British losses includes HMS Furious (47), HMS Eagle, HMS Manchester (C15), HMS Cairo (D87) and HMS Foresight (H68). Victorious Italian MASs underway and Italian aircraft in flight overhead. View of letter from Mussolini congratulating the Axis forces, read by narrator. View of Italian attack boats moving at high speed in ocean.

Date: 1942, August 11
Duration: 7 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675070112
Axis powers vision for conquest at onset of World War II

Invasion plans of the Axis power in the European Theater during World War 2. Film opens, ostensibly, showing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto speaking at a podium. (There is some question whether this is actually Yamamoto.) The U.S. Capitol and the Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, with marching Axis troops superimposed as if marching in conquest. Axis troops parade in Berlin, Germany. Animated diagram shows 'divide and rule' ambitions of the Axis powers. Animation showing radio signals emanating from radio towers with propaganda and "LIES". A German speaker delivers a propaganda message from a broadcast studio in Germany. Young women are seen gathering in groups. A woman in Italy receives an award for having many sons. Group of young men and women in Italy walking arm in arm which narrator describes as an effort to boost marriages and encourage having children. Cover of "Der Hammer" magazine in which German Dr. Willband Hentschel writes: "Round up a thousand German girls. Isolate them in a camp. Then let them be joined by a hundred German men. If a hundred such camps were set up, you would have 100,000 thoroughbred children in one stroke." Next scene shows a maternity ward with many (perhaps 30 or more) newborn infants laying on a large surface and being powdered, diapered, and swaddled by a team of German nurses. Narrator states: "Of course the children from this assembly line belong to the State, to be scientifically claimed for conquest."

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070861
French troops move up to the front lines in Italy.

Lieutenant General Mark Clark and General Alphonse Juin during French troops in Italy. Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, liaison officer between Fifth Army and General Juin, speaking to French officers. Light Tank rumbling along highway. Two French soldiers standing in turret. Scout cars mounting 50 cal Air cooled machine guns carry French soldiers along the highway. Italian women knitting on doorstep. 2 ½ ton truck rolling through mud and rain. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034675
French troops crossing pontoon bridge in rain in Italy.

Truck pulling tarpaulin in covered gun across steel tread way pontoon bridge in rain in Italy. Scout cars with French troops crossing pontoon bridge in rain. Jeep with French soldiers pulling a 37mm gun along muddy road. French soldier getting astride motorcycle and driving off in the rain. Tanks and scout cars on road. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034676
French soldiers watch another soldier roast a goat over an open fire in Italy.

Bivouac area in orchard in Italy. French soldiers watch another soldier roast a goat over an open fire. Men slicing meat off the roast goat and eating. Scenes of tent bivouac area. Man getting into tent. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034677
King Victor Emmanuel, General Pietro Badoglio and Italian troops in Italy.

Italy during World War II. Italian soldiers and civilians on trucks with flags. Italian army, soldiers in jeep. King Victor Emmanuel III with other Italian officers. People crowd outside a building. General Pietro Badoglio poses in a balcony. Civilians on road. Soldiers clean up ground for new buildings. Construction of tunnel, bridge and buildings. Young children run towards water. Construction of a road. A ship with Italian soldiers and officers. People crowd on port. Progress of the Italian Air Force and Navy under Mussolini. An Italian navy fleet underway. Guns on the naval ship deck. Naval warfare, bombardment and explosions in the water. Italian pilots stand before trimotor bomber aircraft. Aircraft in flight. Italian soldiers stand beside artillery. Soldiers march with rifles. Soldiers in tanks during the parade. A soldier salutes.

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021213