American Football (also known as Gridiron) in Florence, Italy. Players dressed in medieval dresses convene at the Piazza della Signoria (P.za della Signoria, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy). Italian spectators are seated in the stand to watch the match. Players get on the field and the game starts. Contestants playing American Football at the Piazza della Signoria.
A map of Italy. A German convoy docks in Sicily, Italy. Troops debark and artillery is unloaded. Anti-aircraft down United States planes. German planes land in Sicily and parachute troops deplane. United States positions are bombed and strafed. German planes attack a United States convoy. (World War II period).
A man signals to start the Monza 1000 Kilometer International auto race in Monza, Italy. Large crowd gathered to watch the automobile race. Ferrari's take first and second positions. Winning drivers Lorenzo Bandini of Italy and Chris Amon of New Zealand at podium taking trophies.
Armed Italian Partisans escort several Italian Fascist officials, who walk with their hands raised along a street in Ivrea, Northern Italy, during final days of World War 2, in Europe. Local citizens walk along beside and behind them, including some on bicycles. Another scene shows Italian Partisans escorting several soldiers, of the Italian National Republican Army, with their hands on their heads. This group is also followed by a large number of local citizens. Scene shifts to an American jeep carrying an officer and two U.S. soldiers. It is followed by an automobile, seen, later parked with another near a sidewalk, where several Italian Republican Army officers are conversing cordially with American soldiers of the U.S. 92nd Infantry Division.(By May 5, 1945, all Nazi German forces in Italy, had capitulated.) Italian women and children seen in a small open bus.
General Mark W. Clark and other officers of Allied Forces in Milan, at the end of World War II. General Clark, General Willis D. Crittenberger and Lieutenant General Sir Richard L. G. McCreery inspect honor guard. General Clark with other dignitaries. The party enters Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano, P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) and inspect damage by Allied bombing to the 12th century Romanesque Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio (Piazza Sant'Ambrogio, 15, 20123 Milano MI, Italy).
British Embassy bombing in Rome, Italy by terrorists after World War 2. The British Embassy (Via XX Settembre 80/a, 00187 Rome, Italy) with a gaping entranceway and its residential section damaged. The internal façade of the Porta Pia, a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, can be seen in the background. A pile of rubble at the damaged area of the embassy. People with umbrellas flock to street to see the wreckage of the explosion. Italian carabinieri investigate the explosion. Rubble and damage inside the embassy. A young carabinieri searches for evidence in the rubble. A gaping hole from the damage of the British Embassy. The explosion was caused by eighty pounds trinitrotoluene (TNT) planted in two suitcases, injuring three people.
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