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Allied Military Government working to provide medical care and food to Italians in liberated parts of Italy during World War II

Relief activities of the Allies in Italy during World War 2. Opening scene shows a sailing Schooner under Allied Navy control, docked at a port in Italy following the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. This schooner is being loaded with Allied Military Government (AMG) medical supplies. Closeup of wooden crates containing the supplies. American medical corpsmen checking a stream of water for mosquitoes, and then spraying the area from a DUKW. A hospital building and interior with Italian women holding their infants as they await checkups and vaccinations against disease. Italian citizens in a street anxiously seeking food from the AMG. Local Italian police work to control the crowd in which some persons become unruly and have to be removed. American troops of the U.S. 5th Army marching along Italian roads. Troops riding on a Sherman tank and on a truck pulling an artillery field piece. Supply yard stacked high with food supplies for U.S. troops. (Narrator states it required 750 tons a day to feed the 5th Army.) Views of Naples harbor cluttered with 30 large ships and 300 smaller ones blown up or scuttled by retreating German forces. Firemen manning hoses to fight fires at the waterfront. Smoldering ruins in the port. Three months later, U.S. forces are seen operating supply missions through the port. View from a hill of the port with barrage balloon overhead. Closeup of flour being offloaded from holds of ships by derricks. Italian soldiers unloading the flour bags and placing them aboard trucks for transport to Italian commercial food companies. A U.S. Army Captain at a table with Italian businessmen who purchase the flour from AMG at a fair market price. Italian purchasers examining the flour. Flour being transported to bakers who bake it into bread. Young men busy making and baking loaves of bread. Loaves stacked up at the bakery. A big tray of fresh loaves being sampled by Italian officials and distributed to local Italian civilians who enjoy it.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035964
United States 5th Army troops enter Pisa, Italy after Nazi German surrender (WW2)

A film titled 'Activities in Italy' shows the United States 5th Army soldiers entering the city of Pisa, Italy after Nazi German forces surrender during World War II. Soldiers move towards the north and move across the wrecked city. Tanks pass by the Leaning Tower of Pisa (Piazza del Duomo, 56126 Pisa PI, Italy). General Mark W. Clarke and other officers inspect the leaning tower. British anti-aircraft units cross over River Arno the next day.

Date: 1944, September 2
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037768
Invasion of Italy by Allied forces (WW2)

Sicily and Italy invaded by Allies. Allied troops land in beach of Sicily in 1943. Airplanes drop paratroopers over Sicily. Benito Mussolini ousted in Rome. U.S. battleship at the sea. American troops advance. Italy invaded by Allied forces during World War II. Soldiers riding Jeeps. American warships underway at the sea. General Eisenhower and British officials aboard a ship. Convoy in the sea. The Italian fleet surrenders to General Eisenhower. Italian crowd greets American troops in Naples, Southern Italy.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040071
Newsreel 'First Films! Invasion of Italy!' during World War 2

Allied invasion convoy of ships underway in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II. Amphibious landing of Fifth United States Army at Salerno during Allied invasion of Italy. General Mark Clark and Vice Admiral Henry Hewitt seen talking at time of "Operation Avalanche." An animated map shows Sicily, Salerno and Naples. The soldiers memorize every mountain and valley. Ships and supplies pour in. Night time invasion underway as U.S. soldiers invade Italy under attack from German soldiers. Soldiers seen on tanks advancing. General Eisenhower and Admiral Cunningham seen in discussion on a ship as terms of surrender of Italy are carried out, and Italian ships head toward Allied ports.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040777
Demolished buildings and harbor in Naples, Italy (WW2)

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.

Date: 1944, February 21
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053183
Civilians cross the Ponte Vecchio Bridge in Florence, Italy.

The Ponte Vecchio Bridge in Florence, Italy, in World War 2. A sign in Italian reads “Ponte Vecchio é permesso il passaggio solo per pedoni e carrette a mano” (“Ponte Vecchio is allowed to pass only for pedestrians and handcarts” in English). The sign reads 'Ponte Vecchio' in Italy near Arno River. People of Florence cross the ruined Ponte Vecchio Bridge (Ponte Vecchio, 50125 Firenze FI, Italy). Several buildings lined on a side of the bridge. Men walk with bicycles. People walk through a mine cleared path approaching Ponte Vecchio Bridge. Italian refugees escape from German concentration camps near Florence. U.S. Brigadier General Edgar E. Hume, 5th Army, talks to the refugees. Several refugees stand in a group. A United States soldier distributes cigarettes to Italian men. Men smoking. Shops in the background.

Date: 1945, January
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053879