Views of cars arriving at King's Villa in Salerno. Two guards standing at the entrance of King's Villa. Marshal Pietro Badoglio,Palmiro Togliatti and Count Carlo Sforza and several other cabinet members arrive back to back, including S. E. Sentore, S.E. Cott, Benedetto Croce, S.E. Abb, Guilio Rodino, Pietro Mancini. Guards rush towards the cars and open car doors for dignitaries to get out. Marshal Pietro Badoglio along with other dignitaries standing at the entrance of villa and discussing. Dignitaries entering the villa after discussion.
Italian dignitaries enter the conference hall of the Salerno Municipio building in Salerno Italy. Marshal Pietro Badoglio along with other government officials and dignitaries take seats around the conference table. Dignitaries greet and shake hands with each other. They include Sforza, Togliatti, Croce, Rodino, Mancini.
First Lady Jacquelin Kennedy in Italy. A plane lands and taxis. First Lady Jacquelin Kennedy and her daughter Caroline get off the plane . They arrive to spend a vacation at an ancient villa in Ravello. Mrs. Kennedy being greeted by officials at the airport.
Salerno,Italy. Newly installed Italian government leaders convene. Cabinet Ministers Benedetto Croce, Palmitro Togliatti and Count Carlo Sforza, along with two others, converse in the lobby of the Salerno Municipio building. Other dignitaries moving in background. One of them smokes a cigarette while conversing.
Allied invasion at Salerno, Italy, during 2nd World War. Scenes of U.S. Sherman tanks, military vehicles and troops, moving easily through Sicily. Animated map depicts allied invasion routes from Bizerte, North Africa, to two points on opposite sides of Italy mainland. Convoys emerge from smoke screens in bay of Salerno, Italy. Allied warship creating heavy black smoke screen. Decks of LSTs crammed with trooops and vehicles. Allied warships bombard Salerno coastline. Commandos, Rangers and Seabees, in first assault wave are targets of German guns and dive bombers. Pontoon boat dropped from LST, with 35 Seabees aboard, strikes a mine, and is destroyed, setting off conflagration on the LST. Other LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) discharging vehicles to the beach over floating causeways, under enemy fire. Destroyed U.S. Sherman tanks, vehicles and a U.S. P-40 aircraft , litter the beach. A Seabee uses semaphore flags to direct an LST to beach area. Seabees build shelters for war materiel and dressing stations where allied wounded are treated. Seabees continue to unload supplies to beachhead. Brief view of Lieutenant General Mark Clark, 5th Army commander, on the beachhead. Allied casualties being tended. Stretcher bearers carry wounded. Allied troops advancing on roads in Italy. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, concludes narration of the Seabee documentary, from his office in Washington, DC
General Mark W Clark during World War II in Salerno, Italy. General Clark with others, British General Richardson, Major General Alfred Gruenther standing and discussing. All the army personnel along with General Clark walk away and meet the other army personnel standing in a row. General Clark congratulates the soldiers of 82nd Airborne Division. Monsignor Francesco Cuazzo of Maria del Granta Monastery thanking General Gruenther for the contribution in repairing the old church. General Clark receives a jewel as a token of gratitude from the Monastery service men.
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