A film titled 'Soft Tissue Wounds' shows U.S. soldiers being hit by shell fragments and their recovery after surgery in Naples during World War II. Bombs stacked on a field. U.S. sailors work around. A battleship's gun firing salvo. Fragments are removed by surgery from battle casualties. Reports of four cases handled in the Italian campaign of January 1944. The first case shows a soldier hit by a shell fragment. U.S. troops carry the soldier hit by the shell fragment in Italy. A truck moves ahead on a road. Wounded being carried into an evacuation hospital tent. A wound just below the buttock of a soldier. Primary infusion is given to the patient. The bleeding is controlled. The wound is dusted. Dressing completes an operation. The healing of the wound after a few weeks of the operation. The patient walks after healing. A U.S. soldier shows a scar under scapula. A U.S. LST (Landing Ship Tank) fires towards Anzio Harbor. [Note: script refers to British Hospital Carrier Leinster (#37) although footage appears to be of (British) Hospital Ship St. David (#27), later sunk by the Germans at Anzio in January, 1944]. A wounded soldier is carried on a stretcher aboard the hospital ship. Surgery is performed on the wounded soldier. The soldier on a bed after the operation. A ship underway at sea. A Red Cross ambulance and a truck transport the wounded soldiers to a hospital in Naples. The wound after one week of injury. The wound margins are refreshed. The wound edges are stitched. Removal of stitches after eight days. The soldier smokes a cigarette after recovering.
U.S. troops in Italy during World War II. The troops in Naples. Buildings along the sides of a street. Soldiers aboard military vehicles passing on a road. The troops at a dock. Ships and landing crafts are loaded with equipment. Troops aboard ships and landing crafts. They leave Naples and head towards Anzio. Barrage balloons in flight overhead. A man standing near a blinker light aboard a ship. Officers discussing strategies. A soldier reads a newspaper. A landing craft wades ashore. Trucks, tanks and other equipment being unloaded. German airplanes in flight overhead. They drop bombs over a convoy. Smoke arises as some of the ships explode. U.S. soldiers firing guns from the ships towards the airplanes. The airplanes flying in formation. Bomb damaged buildings in the area. Smoke from bombardment and firing. Soldiers firing anti-aircraft guns. Wrecked vehicles and equipment on the field. Ships underway at sea.
80 Jewish families banished by the Nazis in Brunn, Czechoslovakia, flee Nazi German persecution. Jewish people at No Man's Land near the border. Jewish woman wipes tears. Naples, Italy: Thousands of colonists, comprising 1800 families, are brought from farms to colonize the Italian possession of Libya in North Africa. They board the steamship, SS Piemonte,for voyage to Libya. Family groups are seen moving across the pier and boarding the ship. Passengers wave from the ship and well-wishers wave from the shore as the ship leaves the pier. View of the ship's captain on the bridge. A warship in the harbor fires a gun in salute. Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, in military uniform, stands on the pier and bids the colonists farewell. Several ships bearing colonists are seen underway, leaving Naples.
'Italy's sleeping giant wakes up after 7 years'. Two men climb up the Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy. Volcanic eruption takes place as white smoke emerges from the mountain.
Italian troops leave for Ethiopia from Naples, Italy during World War II. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Italian troops embark onto a ship as they leave for Ethiopia from Italy. Soldiers aboard the ship as they wave. The ship begins to pull away as the soldiers wave.
United States sailors visit the ruins of Pompeii near Naples, Italy. United States sailors strolling around Pompeii’s ruins (Via Plinio, 26, 80045 Pompei NA, Italy). United States sailors walk around the Ionic stone columns of Pompeii.
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