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.
Hermann Goering, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and others as Italy joins Germany in declaring war against Britain and France June 10, 1940 (World War II). Animated map illustrates possible Axis war plans. Aerial view of Maginot line. Fire burning from German bombing in Scandinavia. Windmill turning in Holland.Map outlines Allied strategy for defense. Views of the Ardennes Forest. French Generals examining map. British Field Marshal John Vereker (Viscount Gort) studying map with two Generals.Narrator states they dismissed German attack through the Ardennes. May 9, 1940 - News headline reports German troops on move. Netherlands and French recruit troops mobilizing. French army soldiers standing at train station platform and loading into passenger railroad trains. Exterior of the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) at Montmartre, Paris. People lighting candles. Statue of Madonna and Child. Views of several churches. A Catholic Bishop blessing people. People kneeling in prayer. Hitler and other Nazi leaders, including Himmler, Goebbels, Bormann, Hess and Rohm, haranguing crowds. Hermann Goering leading crowd in salutes. Ludwig Muller, Reichsbischof, Hitler supporter. Many views of Germans shouting Sieg Heil. German troops moving out on May 10, 1940. Hermann Goering, chief of Luftwaffe, in uniform. German pilots run to airplanes. Ju-87 Stukas take off. D0-17 bombers take off. German tanks, motorcycle troops, armor and infantry cross borders of Luxembourg, Belgium, and Holland. Map depicts action. German forces destroy obstacles at border crossings and move past windmill in Holland.He-111 bombers in flight. German paratroops jump from Ju-52 transport over Rotterdam. They capture key facilities. Troops riding on tanks. Dutch General Henri Gerard Winkelman walks with German officer over Maas-bridges in Rotterdam. He and delegation enter building at Rijsoord to sign surrender on May 15, 1940. German bombers destroy Rotterdam. View of German bomber bomb bay doors open and bombs away toward targets. The city in flames, with sound. Remains of the city. Numerous dead civilians.
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.
'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.
Refugees dwell in caves near Naples in Italy. Men, women and children outside their houses in caves. Children aligned to collect food from United States soldiers. Soldiers give out flour and other provisions to women refugees. Oil pipelines running from ship to shores. Canadian artillerymen attack Ortona in Italy. Dead soldiers. Canadian soldiers place land mines in ground. Tanks fire. Troops patrol in the town. Prisoners held. (World War II period).
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