Three nations sign pacts to preserve Mid-European peace, in Rome Italy. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, and Premier Gyula Gömbös of Hungary sign Agreement to help maintain peace in Europe. The pact is also signed to stimulate trade and improve commercial relations between the signatories.
Diver descends 1000 feet under sea in Genoa Italy. Ship at sea. Diver gets inside a diving equipment wearing the oxygen mask. He is lowered into water with the help of a rope. Men help him aboard the ship after his diving experience.
U.S. soldiers insert charges into rockets and then load them into a multi-barrel rocket launcher mounted on a 37mm gun carriage, set up on the shore at Viareggio, Italy in World War 2. They load the 4.5 mm rockets into the firing tubes. Next the rockets are seen being fired by a soldier from a remote position. (Ordnance and Artillery Sections of the U.S. 5th Army developed this rocket launcher.)
Views of The Deposition sculpture by Michelangelo, in Florence Italy, also called the Florentine Pietà.
Aerial views of landmark buildings and monuments in Rome, Italy. The dome, the fountain, and the interior of St. Peter's Basilica. The Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo. Buildings in Rome and Vatican City.
German soldiers moving through brush, in area of Nettuno, Italy, during World War 2. One carrying an MG 42 machine gun over his shoulder. Allied artillery shells bursting over mountainous wooded area nearby. German soldiers running over rugged hilly terrain. Allied shell bursting on a road. German soldiers firing from behind a natural hill. Officer signals to stop firing as several British soldiers surrender with arms raised. They are quickly searched for weapons, as another Allied shell lands only yards away from them and the camera. The British prisoners of war (POWs) being escorted down a hillside. Others, including one wounded, being escorted up a hill to be questioned. A german Krupp 17 cm Kanone 18 gun in camouflaged position on mountainside. Soldier gives signal to commence firing. German radio operator wearing headphones and communicating at a site near battlefield. German Kanone 18 gun firing from clump of trees. Shells exploding in distance. German soldiers holding their ears as guns fire.
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