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Allied Military Government battles black market and corruption affecting Italian food and agriculture during World war II

Challenges faced by the Allied Military Government while trying to reestablish Italian self reliance in agriculture during World War 2. Film opens showing Italian-sourced food supplies being delivered, as Narrator discusses problems of black market. He notes that Italian wheat growers who fail to declare excess grain are raided. Officials are seen entering and seizing grain from warehouse of such a grain merchant. Loaded trucks pass checkpoints set up on highways. View of official examining bill of laden from a truck being checked. Armed Italian Carabinieri ride on trucks of grain to prevent pilfering. Glimpse of AMG officials as narrator speaks of strict rationing system. Italians at a table, counting out ration coupons. Ceiling prices of all commodities seen posted at public places in Sicily. Sacks of seed potatoes being loaded from an AMG warehouse onto a horse-drawn cart that is then seen driving away, fully loaded. A boy on a farm unloades a sack of seed pototoes. Barefoot Italian women and girls planting the new crop. Fishing boats being readied to put out again. View from a fishing boat as men retrieve a large net filled with fish. An open air marketplace filled with Italian shoppers. A window sign announcing American bread. A woman shooing flies away from her open stall in the market as an old woman samples some of her wares.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035965
German artillery firing and Allied prisoners of war taken during Italian campaign.

Italian campaign in World War 2. German gunners firing Krupp 17 cm Kanone 18 guns (one labeled "A" and the other "B"). Captured American prisoners of war (POWs) climb down from a truck. Next, large numbers of Allied POWs, including Americans, British, and British Colonial troops, are seen marching along a road. Film focuses on several captured Indian soldiers.

Date: 1944
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045014
B-26 bombers of the U.S. 12th Air Force strike German positions at Monte Cassino, during World War Two

The Battle of Monte Cassino.. B-26 medium bombers of the U.S. 12th Air Force bomb German positions at Monte Cassino, during World War II. Formations of B-26s are seen. Explosions of bombs occur in rapid succession as they strike the targets.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046251
Aerial views of the ancient city of Pompeii

Views of the city of Pompeii taken from a military light plane flying overhead. Buildings in Pompeii.

Date: 1944
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046495
U.S. soldiers fire at an Italian town with 240-mm howitzer, rifles and tanks during the war (WW2)

A documentary depicts the importance of good guns during World War II. A town in a valley. A U.S. soldier speaks on a radio and other soldiers around him. They fire an artillery. A 240-mm howitzer being pulled by two armored tractors. Howitzer is emplaced and shells being loaded. It fires at an Italian town. A soldier looks through binoculars. They are on the radio. A view of the town in the valley. Infantry follow U.S. tanks into the valley. Smoke arises due to firing. They fire a mortar The shells of the mortar. Civilians of the town. The troops enter the town. Mine detectors being used and fighting in the streets. Damaged building in the town. Civilians leave cave to welcome U.S. troops and receive food.

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047387
Cub planes hoisted aboard LST (Landing Ship, Tank) by crane during World War II

Pre-invasion loading and maneuvers of air. Piper J-3 Cub plane is hoisted aboard LST (Landing Ship, Tank) by crane during World War 2. Trucks parked at dock. Men aboard LST assist with loading operations.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052239