Liberation of Rome by the Allies during World War II. Allied soldiers loaded onto a tank enter Rome. A sign in Italian. Civilians gathered in St. Peter's Square. Allied soldiers ride bikes. Civilians and traffic with the Colosseum in the background. A large crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square cheers. A child in a pram. A woman kisses a soldier.
Scenes of Rome and American Army officers on leave there during World War 2. Views including St Angelo Bridge and castle (Castel Sant'Angelo) at the Tiber River. People riding bicycles over the bridge. Statue of an angel, by sculptor Pieter Verschaffelt. St Peters Basilica and Square. Sign proclaiming neutral territory of the Vatican (in Italian and English). The sign reads ' Neutral state of Vatican. Admission of military vehicles not allowed.' A sign reads '322 service group'. U.S. Army officers, in uniform, pose as they smoke cigarettes, wearing overseas caps and smiling. An officer pretends to count money, posing in front of a sign in the background reading ' Finance office 322nd service group.' Unidentified U.S. Army officers smoking cigarettes and posing for photographs in front of flowering shrubs in Rome.
Last leg of transatlantic flight by Roger Q Williams and Captain Lewis A Yancey arriving land in Rome after brief stop in Spain, on their flight from Old Orchard, Maine. They are seen by their Bellanca monoplane named "Pathfinder." Another scene shows Benito Mussolini, dressed in white suit and hat, standing with other officials, awaiting arrival of the aviators. (After 2 hours he must leave and doesn't get to greet them personally.) Night scene of the aviators with Italian crowd of admirers. A large bonfire is lit nearby. Photographers in the crowd.
Allied drive towards Rome after the capture of Monte Casino during the end of World War II. Ruins of Cassino crushed by Allied war machines. Artillery shelled walls of Monte Cassino. Enemy mines and booby traps. Commanding officer of British, American and French army including British Army Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark and Juin et al plan for the drive on Rome. Army tanks drive. Smoke rises. German prisoners are being taken.
Pope John XXIII elevates new cardinals in Vatican City. In St. Peter's Basilica, Pope John XXIII being carried on the sedia gestatoria chair with large white ostrich fans (flabella). The Pope is placed on a raised platform. The Archbishop of Tokyo, Cardinal Peter Tatsuo Doi, is elevated as the first Japanese cardinal in history. Cardinal Doi receives the Pope’s blessing. Pope John XXIII elevates Archbishop Laurean Rugambwa of Tanganyika (now known as Tanzania) as the first modern native African Cardinal. The new cardinals bend their head towards the altar.
German prisoners taken in Carrara during World War II. German prisoners are captured by Italian partisans and are loaded into trucks and driven to enclosure. A road sign 'Cararra' on a building wall. The town of Cararra. Trucks of U.S. 442nd Regiment pass on a road and ford Frigido River north of Massa.
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