United States soldiers communicate on the ground with radiomen in airplane reconnaissance missions during the Allied Invasion of Sicily in World War 2. Soldier use a radio telephone to talk to radioman while taking notes of enemy position. Soldiers working on plotting boards and calculators. United States soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 60th Field Artillery fire M2A1 Howitzer in battlefield. Artillery shells hit mountain.
Town sign of Messina during Allied Invasion of Sicily in World War 2. United States soldiers and jeeps pass through road in Messina. Soldiers walk through a street with houses and stone structures devastated by invasion. Four United States soldiers onboard a military jeep drive through rubble-strewn street in Messina. United States soldiers begin to clear rubble and wreckage from street using bulldozer. British soldiers pause briefly to share supplies from truck. Italian prisoners-of-war are made to march out of the city while holding white flags in surrender.
Italian fascist supporters (also known as the “Black Shirts”) march with black flags in Piazza Venezia, the central hub of Rome, Kingdom of Italy, during World War 2. Behind the fascist rally is the Victor Emmanuel II National Monument (also known in Italian as the Altare della Patria or “Altar of the Fatherland”). Italian men in fashionable two-piece suits march down from the Via 4 de Novembre street towards Piazza Venezia. Italians marching towards Piazza Venezia in the Parco di Colle Oppio (Oppian hill) near the Roman Colosseum. Italian crowds with flags walk to Piazza Venezia in the Via dei Fori Imperiali near the Roman Colosseum, Roman Forum and the Capitoline Hill. Fascist supporters crowd the whole Piazza Venezia as seen from the Altar of the Fatherland. The Palazzo Bonaparte, Basilica di San Marco, Via del Corso and the Generali Assicurazioni Insurance Company Rome headquarters can be seen from the Altar of the Fatherland. Crowds waving the royal Italian flag cheer. Fascist supporters hold placards while marching in Via del Corso, the main shopping street in Rome linking to Piazza Venezia. Crowds cheer in front of the Palazzo Venezia, the office of Italian Prime Minister and il Duce, Benito Mussolini. Benito Mussolini emerges from his iconic balcony in the Sala del Mappamondo of the Palazzo Venezia. From his balcony in Palazzo Venezia, Benito Mussolini delivers his notable speech declaring war on France and Great Britain. Italians cheer on Benito Mussolini after he delivers his speech from the balcony. Royal Italian flag flies in the Altar of the Fatherland as crowds gather to listen to Benito Mussolini’s speech in Palazzo Venezia. Italians cheer on Benito Mussolini emerging in balcony with an Italian official. Mussolini’s balcony is flanked by two fasces, an ancient Roman weapon used as a symbol of Italian fascism. From his balcony, Benito Mussolini gives a Roman Salute to the cheering crowd.
Jaeger-Schnellmischer high-speed cement mixers at construction site for building of the Siegfried Line in Nazi Germany. A Nazi German official oversees construction work. Laborers haul a cement mixer using ropes. Various pile drivers in operation at the construction site. A welder works on metal form.. Laborer bends bar. Laborers pass around rebar. View of a bunker being constructed. View of a bunker excavation underground.
View of a bunker overlooking a river in Germany, likely the Saar river, before World War 2. A ship can be seen sailing in the river. Many other pillboxes along the river. Low angle view of “Dragon’s teeth” tank barriers found in the Siegfried Line, the defense fortification line in western Nazi Germany use during WWII. Aerial view of long water filled trench on the Siegfried Line running through forest and farmland.
Nazi German soldiers march alongside row of steel “Dragon’s Teeth” anti-tank obstacles (similar to Czech hedgehogs) along the Siegfried Line, the defense fortification located in western Germany and used later during World War II. German soldiers marching in farmland. Farmers work outside bared wire fence as soldiers march nearby. German soldiers enter a bunker entrance below a sign that reads “Werkgruppe Scharnhorst Panzerwerk 1238” (“Scharnhorst Work Group Panzerwork 1238” in German). Gate grill automatically opens as soldiers enter. German soldiers enter gate of semi-underground bunker. German soldiers march inside bunker tunnels. Camera pans from one bunker tunnel to another as soldiers march through.
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