British Army M4 Sherman tanks and universal carriers in Naples, Italy. Cheering crowd claps and shouts as the soldiers on the tanks pass through the streets. Views of bombed city, army trucks, armored cars and jeeps standing, smoke rising from the top Vesuvius in background and soldiers walking through ruins. (World War II period).
B-24 aircrafts in formations and raid on Naples and Messina in Italy. Bombardier looking through bombsight. Guns visible. B-25 aircraft over water. Navigator and crew member check charts. B-24 interior. Nose gunner checking gun through gunsight. Cameraman taking pictures. Bombardier on alert. Top turret gunner checking his gun. Bombs dropped over water. Bomb explosions in water. Waist gunners checking their guns and on alert together. The tail gunner and waist gunner on alert. Formations of B-24s. B-24s against dark cloudy sky. B-24s flying. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War 2. The soldiers operate a train in and out of a roundhouse in Naples. A building in the background. Smoke comes out of the engine of the train. Several trains have markings on them. One is marked the 'General Mark Clark Special'.
During the Battle of Naples in Brindisi, Italy. General Pietro Badoglio and General Mason Mac Farlane step down the stairs from a building. Scenes of a refugee camp. People coming out from the entrance of the camp. People getting food and other essential things in the camp. Children carry food containers and walk away. Inmates of city leaving from city in trucks while other people wave to the leaving people. General Mark W Clark walks along with other officers. (World War II period).
View of American destroyers (DD) in Naples Harbor during World War II. A United States Navy officer on bridge. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) in Naples Harbor. A Destroyer Escort (DE) lays smoke screen on water. View of landing crafts (LC). Formations of planes. DE, DD & YMS in Naples Harbor. LST tow barrage balloons. YMS leaves Naples Harbor.
Film shows an invasion task force at sea overwritten by a slate reading, "Casablanca." Narrator speaks of January, 1943, in World War 2. View of the city of Casablanca in Morocco. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated next to British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill as they meet in Casablanca, at the Anfa Hotel, January 14–24, 1943, during World War 2. Roosevelt wears a black armband on his left sleeve in mourning over the death of his mother, in 1941. Backs of Military officers seen from behind, with Churchill and Roosevelt on chairs in the background. Then a closeup of Roosevelt and Churchill seated with high ranking Allied military officers behind them, including U.S. Admiral Ernest King and U.S. General George Marshall. View from directly overhead of marching American soldiers. Huge number of British soldiers led by a Rolls Royce armored car, are seen walking across the desert, celebrating their victory over German forces at Tunisia. Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt seated on the lawn in front of the White House during the third Washington Conference (code-named Trident) held in Washington DC, from May 12 to May 25, 1943. Closeups of both men. Scene shifts to a U.S. invasion task force in the Pacific. Glimpse of a Benson-Livermore class destroyer near hills in the Pacific. A navy Douglas Dauntless dive bomber flies over ships in an invasion task force. U.S. troops are seen in a Higgins Boat landing craft from the transport ship USS President Jackson (APA-18). Troops storming ashore from landing craft. U.S. troops firing artillery field pieces, and raising the U.S. flag on a captured island in the Pacific. Scene shifts to European theater, where an Allied warship is firing its guns during Allied invasion of Sicily, code named Operation Husky, 9 July – 17 August 1943. Amphibious assault taking place. A jeep is seen pulling an artillery piece through shallow surf. An army truck drives through shallow surf, out of a landing craft. Breech view of artillery gun being fired and shell ejecting. A shell exploding near the camera. Camouflaged antiaircraft guns firing. Series of brief scenes showing Soviet Russian infantry and tanks advancing against German forces in Russia. Next scene shows Benito Mussolini in military dress uniform, giving a speech, and then posing next to a Bronze statue of Roman emperor, Julius Caesar, in Rome, Italy, as troops march past him. A bust of Mussolini being pulled down. Rioting Italians. Axis defenders in Sicily, carrying a white flag as they surrender to Allied powers. Views of Lieutenant General Mark Clark and a Major General pleased at the surrender. American troops being cheered by Sicilians as they ride in jeeps. Italian men receiving food after the surrender, as a British soldier stands nearby. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers in flight over the Northwest Pacific. Aerial view of Kiska in the Aleutians. B-17 flying Fortress bomber in flight with bomb bays open. Bombardier at his station in the aircraft he presses button to release bombs. Formation of B-24 bombers dropping bombs. View from aircraft of them exploding on the ground. Aerial view of surfaced German submarine being strafed by Allied aircraft. After several attacks it is sunk. B-24 bombers raining bombs over Germany. Huge explosions on the ground raising plumes of white smoke. Bombed out remains of Coventry Cathedral in England. Religious services being held in the ruins. View of the Pentagon building just outside Washington DC, and the British Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street, London, England. View of Quebec Canada. A Canadian sentry on a hill. The Wolfe–Montcalm Monument in Governors' Garden beside the Château Frontenac, Quebec, Canada. Views of the Chateau Frontenac. Canadian troops patrolling around the Hotel. Royal Northwest Mounted Police on the grounds. Canadian soldiers with antiaircraft guns, scanning sky for possible threats. Armed couriers loading bags of official dispatches into a car. The dispatches being delivered to waiting aircraft. Censors examining postal mail. Conference attendees showing their passes to Canadian Mounted police officers at the hotel entrance. Closeup of an actual pass issued to a U.S. Army Major.
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