5th Army Headquarters in Algeria, North Africa. General Mark W Clark along with General Dwight Eisenhower and other army personnel enter the 5th Army Headquarters. U.S. soldiers at the entrance receive and salute the Generals. Major General Alfred Gruenther and Admiral Hewitt enter the headquarters. Soldiers marching in a parade in honor of the senior officers. General Gruenther and Admiral Hewitt salute the parade. General Eisenhower pinning the medal on General Clark. General Eisenhower, General Clark, Field Marshal Tedder, Admiral Hewitt along with other British and American officers. (World War II period).
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.
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.
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.
View of two guards standing at the entrance of King's Villa in Salerno,Italy. Several women standing in the background near the entrance. Views from just outside the partially open door of a large stadium filled with people. A sign outside reads "C.E.F. General Commandant Le C.E.F." Elected and military officials walk together down a stairs to a parked car. Guards salute and stand attentively. A officer walks towards the car and salutes to another officer.
U.S. Coast Guard sailors in England along with women soldiers in uniform, during liberty ashore. They play a game of lawn bowling and the look at swans in a lake. Scenes of sailors loading boxes of rations onto ships. Several soldiers lie, chat, read books and walk on the deck area of landing crafts. An officer looks through a telescope mounted on the ship towards the carrier ships heading towards the beach. Troops loading LCVP crafts and being ferried out to waiting transports. LCI crafts loaded with Infantry soldiers, engineers, and medical corpsmen waiting to move out. Actor dramatization of troops hearing the news that the real invasion is to begin. (World War II period).
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