Italian civilians celebrate liberation of Rome during World War II.. Pope Pius XII speaks from balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica. Huge crowd fills at Saint Peter's Square.
Italian civilians celebrate liberation of Rome during World War II. Italian carabinieri in trucks in front of the Palace of Justice. Trucks drive off. A baby carriage in the center of the crowd. An American soldier picks up child from carriage. Cheering crowd on street. An American flag being waved. People around an American vehicle with a few American soldiers in it. The soldiers talk into a radio mike.
Italian civilians celebrate liberation of Rome during World War II. A walkie-talkie operator on a street. Troops of U.S. 85th Infantry Division march in a single file in the northwestern part of Rome as children watch. Italian crowd jamming a street. Few American vehicles move through the crowd.
30, 000 Romans attend the initiation of Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB), the Italian Fascist youth organization, members during the 2684th anniversary of the Founding of Rome at the Circus Maximus. Benito Mussolini is accompanied by a mustached aide, likely Constanzo Ciano. Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) youth members receive medals and double-cheek kiss from Italian Fascist officials on stage. Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) youth march with Fascist officials in Circus Maximus. Benito Mussolini gives a “Roman salute” to marching youth. A jovial chat between Benito Mussolini and Italian Fascist officials.
Nazi Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring inspects an air base in Sicily during World War 2. General Kesselring reviews Luftwaffe troops. Luftwaffe officers assist General Kesselring in walking on muddy field after his boot is lost in the mud. General Kesselring and a Luftwaffe officer inspect a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter. A Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader 53 pilot returns to air base from a mission. Pilot exits fighter cockpit and salutes to his officer. German soldiers with life jackets on a boat, boarding a Dornier DO-24 seaplane. A cartoon on DO-24 depicting a Pinocchio like figure with telescope and goulashes. The Luftwaffe Seenotdienst (Air Sea Rescue Service) seaplane takes off. View inside cockpit as German pilot operates DO-24 seaplane. A radio operator inside seaplane. A German pilot survivor treading water near Malta. Two German soldiers lower themselves from the seaplane and rescue German pilot. DO-24 seaplane flying before landing in water. On land, German pilot is carried on a stretcher and into an ambulance.
German soldiers emerge from underground bunker, move through trench to respond to Allied invasion of Sicily in World War II. Leaning on a trench parapet, a German soldier fires his MG34 machine gun at incoming American troops. Allied troops and vehicles move through beachhead in Sicily during invasion.
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