Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile visits Naples, Italy. Trotsky sees the nations of Europe as paroled prisoners of Joseph Stalin. He and his wife visit the ruins of historic sites in Naples. Trotsky with other dignitaries watches the remains of ancient civilization. The party walks and observes the sculptures and remains of ancient Roman civilization. (World War II period).
A Cardinal leaves for Manila from Naples, Italy. Cardinal walking and being followed by officials and clergymen on dockside. Ship off the coast the Naples.
Task force formed in Naples harbor for the invasion of Southern France during World War II. A United States destroyer underway as a United States Navy officer looks through binoculars from the bridge of a ship. LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) in Naples harbor.
The Allied Campaign in Italy during World War II. United States 5th Army enters Naples on 1st October, 1943. People welcome the army. Women wave the American flag from a balcony of a building. A sunken ship in a harbor. Italian civilians return to their homes in Naples. A farm house damaged by the Germans. Men remove debris and dead bodies. A dead child. Dead bodies lying on ground. Men cover the dead with a sheet.
A film titled 'Soft Tissue Wounds' shows U.S. soldiers being hit by shell fragments and their recovery after surgery in Naples during World War II. Bombs stacked on a field. U.S. sailors work around. A battleship's gun firing salvo. Fragments are removed by surgery from battle casualties. Reports of four cases handled in the Italian campaign of January 1944. The first case shows a soldier hit by a shell fragment. U.S. troops carry the soldier hit by the shell fragment in Italy. A truck moves ahead on a road. Wounded being carried into an evacuation hospital tent. A wound just below the buttock of a soldier. Primary infusion is given to the patient. The bleeding is controlled. The wound is dusted. Dressing completes an operation. The healing of the wound after a few weeks of the operation. The patient walks after healing. A U.S. soldier shows a scar under scapula. A U.S. LST (Landing Ship Tank) fires towards Anzio Harbor. [Note: script refers to British Hospital Carrier Leinster (#37) although footage appears to be of (British) Hospital Ship St. David (#27), later sunk by the Germans at Anzio in January, 1944]. A wounded soldier is carried on a stretcher aboard the hospital ship. Surgery is performed on the wounded soldier. The soldier on a bed after the operation. A ship underway at sea. A Red Cross ambulance and a truck transport the wounded soldiers to a hospital in Naples. The wound after one week of injury. The wound margins are refreshed. The wound edges are stitched. Removal of stitches after eight days. The soldier smokes a cigarette after recovering.
Mount Vesuvius erupts in Naples, Italy. Smoke clouds rise from the Mountain and lava dust floats in the sky. Barrage balloons fly in the foreground and over city of Naples.