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Field Marshal Albert Kesselring reviews Wehrmacht coastal defense in Italy (WW2)

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring reviews coastal defense in Italy during World War 2. Map of Italy and neighboring countries (written in German). Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Albert Kesselring reviews a coastal defense unit in Italy. General Kesselring salutes upon his arrival and walks. General Kesselring waves his baton while speaking. A young Wehrmacht soldier is introduced to General Kesselring. General Kesselring knocks the Stahlhelm helmet of a soldier. General Kesselring boards an SS staff car. Kesselring smiles as the car drives away. A soldier uses binoculars to observe the coast. A German soldier (wearing only white underwear) uses a field telephone. German soldiers (mostly underdressed) resting in a grove of trees. German soldiers prepare and clean artillery guns. Shirtless German soldiers eating grapes in Italy.

Date: 1943
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675079476
People pray to Mother Mary and demonstrate with the statue and Mount Vesuvius erupts in Naples, Italy.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944. Lava in the city. Smoke rises from lava. People pose. Crowd gathers near lava. Civilians kneel in prayer as church services are held before an outdoor shrine. The crowd praying around a Virgin Mary statue. Candles lit in front of statue and priest speaks. Lava flow interrupts services. A man pushes lava rock with a stick. The crowd breaks up and carries the shrine forward. Men carry statue and priest go with them. View of city with cloud of smoke in the background.

Date: 1944, March
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026163
Celebrations in the U.S. on the surrender of Italy and the conditions in Sicily leading to the surrender.

The Allied Forces crush the Axis troops in the Mediterranean during World War II. Italy surrenders. Newspapers in the U.S. show headlines of surrender of Italy. People in the streets read the newspapers. In New York the Americans of Italian descent celebrate Italy's surrender. Roll of honor. A child holds an American flag. American and Italian flags side by side. An Allied convoy moves towards North Africa. Allied troops land in North Africa. U.S. General Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander; British General Montgomery, commander 8th Army and Lieutenant General Clark, commander of U.S. 5th Army are shown. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister Churchill meet at Casablanca. Prelude to surrender- Allied planes drop bombs on islands off Italy. Allied warships off the coast of Sicily. Fighting off the coast. Sicily is invaded by the Allied troops. Americans land on shore. The U.S. 7th Army and the British 8th Army land on Italy's mainland behind a naval bombardment. The Allied soldiers in the streets. U.S. Army Corporal Salvatore DeMarco, of Italian origin, reunites with his family after having left home at age 15. German troops surrender to the U.S. troops and are sent out of the country in ships.

Date: 1943, September
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033556
Churches, palaces, bridge and other famous monuments and buildings in Venice, Italy.

A film on monuments and buildings in Venice, Italy. The main route from the oil fields of Italy to Hungary lies through Venice. A man rowing a gondola in the Grand Canal. The Rialto Bridge (Sestiere San Polo, 30125 Venezia VE, Italy) is seen in the background. The palace of Ca' d' Oro (Calle Ca' d'Oro, 3934, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy). A gondolier rowing a gondola for tourists. The entrance to Piazza San Marco (P.za San Marco, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy). The St Mark's Campanile and the Doge's Palace. Exterior of the St Mark’s Basilica. People walking towards the church. The Bridge of Sighs connecting the Doge’s Palace and a prison. Italian gondoliers rowing gondolas for tourists in Venice’s waterway.

Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076909
King of England and King of Italy meet aboard ship in harbor of Gaeta, Italy

Opening scene shows some Italian statesmen and naval officers boarding the Italian royal yacht Trinacria, anchored in the harbor, at Gaeta, Italy. Next, British King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and daughter, Princess Victoria, are seen posing on the Trinacria's deck, with Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, who is engaged in conversation with the British monarch. Princess Victoria is the center of attention of a group of Italian naval officers. King Edward VII lights a cigarette, throws his match overboard, and smokes while the group continues posing for pictures. He shakes hands with an elder Italian statesman. The two kings converse and Victor Emmanuel III speaks to one of his officials, as Edward VII continues to meet members of the Italian party. (Reportedly, lunch was served in the saloon of the Trinacria, after which King Edward,Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria returned to the British Royal Yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert III, and sailed to Naples.)

Date: 1907, April 18
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027573
Meeting of British 8th Army and U.S. 5th Army near Agropoli in Italy, and U.S. troops entering Albanella Italy in World War II

First Meeting between British 8th Army and the American 5th Army, 35 miles south of Salerno, on a high mountain road near Agropoli, during World War 2. PR officer from the London Irish Army and War Correspondents meet the U.S. Army's 3rd platoon, 36th Division Recon Cavalry troops. The U.S. Army soldiers wait in jeeps at a bend in the road. When the British group arrives they stop and talk together. Then views of a company of the 504 Abn Infantry on the Via Roma entering Albanella Italy. A half-track personnel carrier is seen followed by several M10 Tank destroyers. from Company C of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, driving through town on September 14th, 1943. Views of M4 Sherman tanks on the roads of Albanella. (Note: The location where Infantry and tank views was taken has been identified as the intersection of Via Piazzie Chiesa and Via Roma at coordinates: 40 degrees 28' 41.29"N/15 degrees 06' 52.24"E.)

Date: 1943, September 16
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030879