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Lava pours from the cone and smoke rises from the crater due to eruption from Mount Vesuvius, Italy.

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Italy. The eruption damages the town of San Sebastiano. A view of the buildings at the base of the volcano. The crater of the volcano. Huge billows of smoke filled with cinders and ash rise up in the sky. Smoke rises from mouth of the crater. Columns of boiling smoke and ash. Lava pours from the cone due to eruption of the volcano.

Date: 1944, March 21
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054105
U.S. Army forces assault the German Winter Line of Defense during the Italian campaign of World War II

American troops of the 45th Infantry Division, are seen in mountains after breaking through the first segment of the German Winter Line, near San Pietro Infine, Italy, in World War 2. It is Christmas Day, 1943 and they occupy Mount Lungo. They receive Christmas dinner in their individual mass kits and sit down on the ground to eat it. On December 28th, they employ pack mules and also use stretchers to retrieve remains of fallen 3rd Division defenders down the steep mountain trails of Mount Lungo. They place the carefully wrapped remains at the base of a bullet pock-marked stone structure. Scene shifts to Mount Sammucro where American troops take advantage of a brief lull in fighting. On 1 January, 1944, Second Corp reinforcements have arrived and Americans commence a new assault on the German Winter Line defenses, with an artillery barrage on German positions guarding San Vittore del Lazio. View of smoke rising from that town. Shelling of Mountaintop flanking Highway 6held by Germans. Groups of American troops firing mortars from valley below. Shells exploding on German positions. Closeup of American gun crew loading and firing a 155mm long tom field gun. Soldiers holding their ears when gun fires. Bombs dropped from American warplane aircraft explode near roads in the valley. Glimpse from U.S. warplane flying overhead, of smoke rising from German positions in the Winter Line. Soldiers of the 168th Infantry Regiment firing a recoiless rifle from wooded area. Shells striking at base of mountain. Troops of the U.S. 137 Infantry Regiment advancing on San Vittore. view in the Italian town on 7 January, 1944, when street fighting has ended. American soldiers are seen mingling with the civilian inhabitants. German military equipment destroyed and burning during the American Winter Line offensive. Captured German soldiers being taken into custody, searched, and processed as prisoners of war.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069115
Italians cheer as American soldiers of the 5th Army enter Rome, Italy, during WWII

The United States 5th Army enter Rome, Italy during World War II. Italians fill the streets and cheer for the Americans. Italians gather in front of the Porta San Giovanni (00185 Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy) near the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Crowds of Italians cheering in front of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Soldiers on military vehicles, M4 Sherman tanks, trucks and jeeps proceed into the center of Rome, past the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) and other ancient structures and landmarks including the Vittoriano and Capidoglio on Capitoline Hill. United States soldiers in truck near the Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo, Via del Circo Massimo, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Crowds gathered in front of the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Men carrying the Italian flag on top of a truck driving in Via del Corso. The American, British and Italian flags hang in front of the Campidoglio. Façade of the Campidoglio (Piazza del Campidoglio, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Young Italian men and women wave at the camera while marching. Italians hitch a ride with soldiers on a Jeep in front of the Saint Peter’s Basilica (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City). Some Italian civilians ride with U.S. soldiers on their trucks. U.S. Lieutenant General Mark Clark consults with two U.S. Major Generals.

Date: 1944, June 4
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046262
Inhabitants of San Pietro Infine, Italy, attempt to begin life anew, after U.S. Forces capture the village from German Forces, during World War II

Aftermath of the Battle of St. Pietro Infine, Italy, after it was taken by soldiers of the U.S. 36th Division, 143rd Infantry Regiment and troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, during World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers of the 143rd Infantry Regiment, scramble down a mountainside over rubble from destroyed buildings in San Pietro Infine, Italy, following the battle there during December 1943. (These scenes were photographed later, in 1944.) Next, more local people are seen running from a mountain cave, where they had taken refuge during the battle of San Pietro. Old people, women, and children make their way down the rubble strewn hillside and onto a remnant of road surrounded by destroyed buildings. Italian women carry their belongings balanced on their heads as they walk towards the remains of their dwellings. A man leads two cattle. One woman carries a new coffin balanced on her head. An 82nd Airborne trooper warns local people about the danger of mines and booby traps left behind by retreating German soldiers. A soldier removes a booby trap in a doorway. Women trying to clean up and settle in the ruins of their homes. As one woman sweeps debris, an huge explosion occurs, bringing down large portions of a building. U.S. Soldiers dig through debris, with shovels. An MP and infantryman stand with several Italian men as one is grief stricken while they retrieve the body of a loved one from the rubble. A woman weeps. Women nurse and comfort their babies. Small children are seen happily emerging from a cave. A mother admonishes her boy. Women and children are relieved and smiling. Several children scamper down a hill. Others are seen walking about and posing shyly for the camera. Local men clearing rubble and women washing clothes in an outdoor stream as they try to reestablish some normalcy in their lives. A shoemaker resuming business at a small bench outdoors. Men unloading sacks of flour from a truck. People purchasing flour being weighed in an outdoor market. Farmers plowing fields with oxen. A church procession, led by a youth carrying a Christian banner, moves from a bombed out church, between mounds of rubble, . Statue of a Saint at the church.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022975
Scenes from the Battle of San Pietro, Italy, during World War II

Elements of the U.S. 36th Infantry Division engaging in the Battle of San Pietro, during World War 2. Opening scene shows U.S. infantrymen of the 141st Infantry Regiment synchronizing their watches on H-Hour, D-Day, the 15th of December, 1944. Next they move forward 400 yardsfrom their positions and are immediately pinned down by heavy artillery fire from German defenders. Soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 143rd Infantry Regiment advance 100 yards and hunker down at barbed wire barrier close to German defense line. They also come under heavy German artillery fire. American Sherman tanks enter the Town of San Pietro to find and destroy the German artillery interfering with the American advances. Views of U.S. tanks on the move. Narrator states that 16 tanks were dispatched along the road to San Pietro. Three reached the outskirts. German gunfire destroys two of these. Smoke rising from a struck tank. Views of pieces of destroyed tanks. Destroyed and abandoned American tanks. American infantrymen carrying a wounded on a litter past a knocked out Sherman tank. View of one (of four) tanks returning to the Regimental Bivouac area. Parachute flares illuminate the battlefield at night, where small American units succeed in penetrating German defenses, but are forced to move back again due to flanking German artillery and machine gun fire. Closeups of several wounded American infantry being moved on stretchers.

Date: 1944, December 15
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022973
Allied troops enter the city and people celebrate and pray in Rome, Italy during World War II.

Allied campaign in Italy during World War II. Allied troops and equipment advance in southern Lazio region on the way to Rome. Various street signs on the way read “Rome”. A map of Lazio region in Central Italy showing the advance of Allied troops into Rome. Nazi German soldiers withdraw in front of Porta San Giovanni (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 00100 Roma RM, Italy), near the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Deserted streets of Rome as the Nazis withdraw, an Italian priest walks nearby. Italian man gives a speech in front of crowd, cheering for the incoming Allied troops. Allied troops enter Rome and civilians celebrate their liberation. Newspaper headlines about the liberation of Rome. Pope Pius XII addresses a large gathering from a balcony in the Vatican City. People gather and pray in Saint Peter’s Square (Piazza di San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, Lazio. 00184). People lay down flowers around dead soldiers. A soldier removes his gear and helmet as he enters a church. A church bell rings.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059428