Arrival of Mussolini in Germany after his liberation by German commandos, from imprisonment by King Emanuele in Italy during World War II. Ju 52 transport aircraft arrives at German airfield. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini steps from the aircraft. He is greeted by German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and embraced by his son, Vittorio Mussolini. He and Hitler get in a car displaying both Italian and Swastika symbols. Mussolini is greeted by German foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, as he enters a building. They both talk. Inside, Hermann Goering chats with Mussolini. Hitler and Mussolini leave the building and enter a car. They arrive at an airfield. Hitler shakes hand with Mussolini, who says farewell to German military officers in attendance. They wave to him, as he climbs aboard a Ju 52 transport plane for his return to Italy.
Documentary titled the "'Rehearsal of War." Film begins showing shells bursting in hills as a soldier runs for cover in foreground. Next, a Republican Soldier helps a wounded comrade walking along a road. More views of combat in Spain. View of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, DC. Sign over a doorway reading: "Chief of Staff." Inside, General Malin Craig, in civilian clothes, flanked by two officials, examines a report entitled, "Analysis of the "Brihuega Campaign." The document also reads: "Guadalajara Front." and is dated 3/27/1937. A document (Classified "Confidential") is shown that discusses the capabilities of the French 20mm Moteur canon firing 300-400 shots per minute with explosive shells.Glimpse of an Army officer's hand marking a map in a book. On his table is a book entitled,"Two World's in Conflict, We or They." Flags of Germany and Italy are seen. Closeup of Benito Mussolini in arms-crossed pose. Italian crowd cheering. View of Adolf Hitler standing with Marshal Hermann Goering, German Army Chief of Staff, Werner von Fritsch, and Rudolf Hess (just barely seen). Animated map of Europe shows Germany and Italy with desired expansion of both. Mussolini walks with military officers past a large Italian trimotor transport aircraft. A field filled with Italian light tanks armed with one small gun each. Each is crewed by one man. A parade of German Sd.Kfz.7 halftrack transporters filled with troops and each pulling an 88mm Flak gun on a Sonderanhänger 201 trailer. Brief view of formation of high wing monoplanes with fixed landing gears, flying overhead. German troops in realistic field exercise of infantry and Panzer I Ausf. A tanks. Closeup of tank with troops. Flame throwing tanks firing in a desert area. Adolf Hitler addressing an audience, finishes with a half-hearted Nazi salute. U.S. Military officers discuss Axis blitzkrieg tactics charting reports from the Spanish campaign on maps. View of Saint Jean de Luz, France, where U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Claude Bowers, is seen on the telephone at the Miramar Hotel where he has taken temporary refuge. Final scenes show a 4-stacker U.S. Navy warship patrolling in Spanish waters and the Captain and officers inside aboard ship reviewing maps and positions.
A prelude to the World War II. A map locates places in Europe. Fascists in Italy. Nazis in Germany as they riot and parade. Soldiers marching in Italy. People watching the soldiers. Buildings along the sides of the street. German soldiers marching holding flags. People watching them. Adolf Hitler standing at the window of a building and greeted by the people and soldiers.
A U.S. Navy training film titled 'Medicine in action: Head injury of a battle casualty' about the treatment and recovery of a soldier wounded during World War II. Private Wilmer of the U.S. 6th Army. A map of Casino Italy where Wilmer was injured during the battle of World War II. Aerial views of an evacuation hospital where Wilmer was given initial medical assistance after being injured. Wilmer with bandage on his scalp at a general hospital in Italy. Doctors clean the wound on the scalp. They try to control the bleeding. Blood clot being removed and wound being checked for infection. Bone fragments being removed from the wound. Wound being stitched. After six days wound being examined. Private Wilmer arrives in Naples in an ambulance. He boards a hospital ship in England and leaves for North Africa. At a camp he talks to other injured patients. Private Wilmer gets off a jeep and boards U.S. Army hospital ship Acadia to leave for United States. At Walter Ridge hospital he moves his hands and legs to demonstrate physical normality after being injured. Doctors administer anesthesia on his scalp and work on the wound. After treating the wound the scalp being closed and bandaged. Private Wilmer after recovering from the injury. He walks out of the hospital after being discharged.
Newly installed Badoglio II government leaders convene in Salerno, Italy. Cabinet Ministers Benedetto Croce, Palmitro Togliatti and Count Carlo Sforza, along with two others, converse in the lobby of the Salerno Municipio building (Via Roma, 84121 Salerno SA, Italy). Other dignitaries moving in background. One of them smokes a cigarette while conversing.
Lt Colonel John T Whitaker speaks before a map on OSS morale operations in Italy. The map points Palermo, Sicily, Tunis, Bizerte and other places. Colonel outlines OSS propaganda and psychological warfare operations during the allied invasions of Sicily and Italy proper. He explains leaflets techniques and rumor spreading by OSS infiltration teams and the use of clandestine radios. Airplanes in flight drop leaflets. People walk. A man reads a leaflet. (World War II period).
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