Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair visits the Twentieth Army Headquarters area. General McNair arrives escorted by other officers at the headquarters and visits various tents in the area. He talks with other officers.
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.
Italian refugees from Anzio in Naples, Italy during World War II. Women volunteers and American Red Cross workers issue clothing to refugees at the Refugee Center in Aversa. Women workers distribute clothes. The refugees crowd to receive clothing. An American Red Cross worker issues clothes to Italian refugees. A woman distributes clothes to the refugees. A refugee girl being issued clothes. A woman stands holding a child. A workers hands over clothes to the woman. Another woman with a child stand in the background. She plays with the child.
View from rocks above as the USS LST -349, is seen being pounded by wind and wave against rocks off Ponza, Italy during World War 2. German prisoners of war are huddled together on her deck as American crew members work to rescue them. Prisoners are seen being assisted as they climb up the steep rocks from the ship. Some are ferried off in inflated rafts. Narrator says: “The ship begins to break in two, with some crew and 20 prisoners still aboard.” View of ship going down as those on the rocks struggle and rescue efforts continue. Narrator states: “The waves swept two Americans and six German prisoners off the cliffs to their deaths. In all, 14 died, 4 Americans, one British officer, and 9 German prisoners.” In the final scene, the ship has sunk out of sight and all survivors (unseen) have moved inland.
Mount Vesuvius erupts. United States Army Air Force B-25 bomber planes covered with lava dust at Pompeii airfield, where aircraft of the 340th Bombardment Group and 321st Bombardment Group were stationed in World War II. Damaged wings of bombers from hot volcanic ash and brimstone. Two bombers buried in ash. Scraper clears airfield. Bomber in the foreground of still-smoking Mount Vesuvius.
Mount Vesuvius erupts. People evacuate city. Men throw lava dust from roof. People walk on street. Women throw lava dust from balcony. Woman throws lava dust from rooftop and cloud of dust over house in sky. Man puts luggage on horse cart.
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