U.S. aircraft in flight over Italy. Aerial views of coastline and buildings. More aerial views showing buildings in city.
Ruins in Naples, Italy. Arrow sign of Naples. U.S. personnel in army jeep outside a building. Pedestrians along a street. Demolished buildings and bomb destruction from World War II bombing. View of Castel Nuovo or Maschio Angioino (Via Vittorio Emanuele III, 80133 Napoli NA, Italy). Traffic on road and a building in background. View of Naples harbor. View of the Egg Castle or Castel dell'Ovo (Via Eldorado, 3, 80132 Napoli NA, Italy). A ship underway in sea. Mountains behind shoreline.
Pompeii city affected by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. View of Mount Vesuvius. Sailing vessel in foreground. Ruins of Pompeii showing partially buried town. Damaged buildings. A wine shop. The baths at Pompeii. A bakery and amphitheater. U.S. Army personnel at amphitheater.
B-14 Liberator aircraft at San Severo Airfield in Italy. B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in flight over San Severo Airfield. A formation of B-17s in flight. Insignias and pictures on B-24 parked at Severo airfield. Damage to B-24. U.S. personnel pose and B-24 parked in background. B-24 taxi on runway for take off.
Camera pans across welcoming delegation of local officials lined up in front of the railroad train of the so-called American Military Mission to Armenia, aka the Harbord Commission. (Some U.S. soldiers can be seen in and near the train.) It was arriving in Mardin, by rail, from Adana and Allepo. (Reportedly, the gentleman in black, standing to the right hand side of the lady, in the welcoming delegation, is Abdurrahman Kavvas, a descendant of the Ortoqid family that ruled Eastern Anatolia, Northern Syria and Northern Iraq in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.) In a change of scene, the camera pans over a large group of local people who pose standing side-by-side. A contingent of Turkish cavalry ride past, followed by a squad of marching Turkish infantry.
American Army Major General James G. Harbord, Head of a U.S. post-war Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, together with members of his staff, mingle with Turkish authorities, as they all come out of the Town Hall building in Kharput (Elazig) Turkey.
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