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Soldiers parade at a ceremony in Rome, Italy to commemorate the participation of Italy in World War I.
Italy commemorates its participation in World War I at a Fascist ceremony in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III arrive at the Victor Emmanuel II Memorial or Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. They get off a carriage. Soldiers of sixteen regiments lined up at the memorial to commemorate the Italian participation in World War I. The soldiers march past the memorial. Bruno, the son of Benito Mussolini, dons a flight gear and gets into the cockpit of an aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. Mussolini looks on. He decorates his son and hands him a license as an aviator. Benito Mussolini hugs his son.
The 26th annual 'Across Rome' water race contest in Rome, Italy.
European swimmers gather for the 26th annual 'Across Rome' water race contest in Rome, Italy. Swimmers jump and swim across the Tiber River. Tugboats and few small boats escort the swimmers. Swimmers swim past the Castel Sant’angelo (Lungotevere Castello, 50, 00193 Roma RM, Italy). Swimmers under the Ponte Sant'Angelo. Spectators on the riversides follow and cheer for the swimmers. Italian swimmer Renato Bacicalupo is the winner of the race.
Various Allied Generals assume new commands in Italy during December, 1944, World War II.
On 12 December, 1944, at an airport in Naples, Italy, British General Sir Henry Nathan Wilson inspects an honor guard of American Military Policemen in formation. (Narrator states he is en route to replace the late Field Marshal Sir John Dill, in Washington, DC, USA) A contingent of British troops is also present as part of the honor guard, on the wet airport tarmac. (Narrator states that Wilson will head the British Joint Staff Mission and be personal military representative for Prime Minister Winston Churchill.) He approaches a line of U.S. military officers who salute him. Closeup of General Wilson With U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker, next to U.S. Vice Admiral Kent Hewitt. Also with them (back to camera) is British Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet. Next, General Wilson and his party are seen boarding a British Avro York four-engine Heavy Transport aircraft. View from the ground, of the aircraft cockpit and the engines running as it taxis out for takeoff. Change of scene shows troops gathered in open air battlefield environment. General Mark Clark, now Commander-in-Chief of the Allied 15th Army Group, decorates some members of the 5th Army, as General Lucian King Truscott Jr. (new 5th Army Commander) stands by his side. General Clark says farewell to members of the 5th Army and shakes hands with many of them. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Pope Pius XII and the civilians welcome the Allied forces in Rome, Italy.
German soldiers retreating and exiting from Rome in the final hours of their occupation during World War 2, before arrival of U.S. forces. German soldiers on foot, and loaded on mechanized vehicles and bicycle, leaving the city before its liberation. View of United States 5th Army forces as they enter Rome during World War II. U.S. Army soldiers entering the city with M4 Sherman tanks. Troops marching in front of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) and the Roman Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Porta San Giovanni near the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Italian women shake hands with Allied troops during a parade. Italian civilians running, possibly from sniper attack. Allied troops fire Browning M1919 machine guns at German snipers hiding from a building. A German soldier waves a white flag from a balcony. Pope Pius XII welcomes British troops inside the Vatican City. Pope Pius XII blesses the troops while being carried on a sedia gestatoria chair. Italian women inspect graves of 320 massacred civilians in the catacombs. A sign gives notice of site where Italian civilians were massacred by German troops. British and Indian troops march towards Montone, pursuing the retreating German forces, despite German counter-attack fire. Field guns fired, tanks advancing. British Infantry and Indian infantry soldiers move on streets.
Allied prisoners of war forced to march in front of the Colosseum by German troops in Rome, Italy (WW2)
German troops in Rome, Italy during World War II. Allied prisoners, mostly U.S. Army soldiers, leave trucks in front of the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome. The prisoners of war (POW) jump out from the back of trucks. German guards force Allied prisoners of war to march on the Via dei Fori Imperiali road in front of the Colosseum.
Bombing of British embassy in Rome in Italy
British Embassy bombing in Rome, Italy by terrorists after World War 2. The British Embassy (Via XX Settembre 80/a, 00187 Rome, Italy) with a gaping entranceway and its residential section damaged. The internal façade of the Porta Pia, a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, can be seen in the background. A pile of rubble at the damaged area of the embassy. People with umbrellas flock to street to see the wreckage of the explosion. Italian carabinieri investigate the explosion. Rubble and damage inside the embassy. A young carabinieri searches for evidence in the rubble. A gaping hole from the damage of the British Embassy. The explosion was caused by eighty pounds trinitrotoluene (TNT) planted in two suitcases, injuring three people.
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