Activities of U.S. 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen) in Italy during World War 2. Airplanes parked at Ramitelli Airfield, Termoli, Italy. An airplane taxis on the airfield. Men watch the airplane.
Views of Italian military aircraft circa 1932, and of Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini with other officers at Ferrara Airfield in Italy. Formation of biplanes planes in flight. Larger, slower bombers high in the formation and many smaller, faster, pursuit planes in formation below them. Large number of planes and fuel trucks parked on the airfield. They are all multiwing aircraft, except for one row of hi-wing monoplanes. Mechanics are seen working on the nose and propeller of one airplane. Benito Mussolini stands on a hill with many other staff officers and looks through binoculars. He points and discusses something with one of his Generals. Italian photographer in jacket and tie, wearing knickerbocker trousers, adjusts his camera and comes forward to take photographs. Mussolini continues his observations.
Slate states: “Dust causes crash. P-38 plows into water truck. Pilot escapes. Two killed.” Members of the U.S. Army 817th Engineers Battalion, who have been building an emergency airfield , near Salerno, Italy, during World War 2, respond when the first P-38 airplane to land at the field, crashes into a water truck at the side of the dirt runway. Smoke rises from the crash scene. Camera focuses on the burning P-38 aircraft and the water truck. Soldiers use improvised slings to move the bodies of two victims away from the crash site. Meanwhile, other P-38 aircraft continue to land at the field. Smoke continues to billow from the burning P-38 airplane.
British soldiers in army trucks on the grounds of the captured Montecorvino Airfield near Salerno, Italy. Trucks and artillery moving into positions on the airfield. British soldier examines abandoned German planes on the airfield including a Focke-Wulf FW-190 fighter and a Junkers bomber in the background. British soldiers examine paperwork and abandoned tents with German signboards in front. Group of British and American soldiers in discussion near a partially destroyed hangar of Monte Corvino airfield. British soldiers unload crates and ammunition boxes from a truck. (World War II period).
British soldiers at the newly captured Montecorvino Airfield outside Salerno, Italy. Soldiers work near hangar at the airfield. A Focke-Wulf FW-190 apparently undamaged, along with two Messerschmitt Me 110s, undamaged. Several wrecked planes and ammunition lying on the airfield. British officers observe destroyed planes. British soldiers uncover and work to disable a large buried Teller German land mine. (World War II period).
United States Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain transport airplanes in Sicily, Italy during World War II. C-47s parked on an airfield. Airmen unload supply crates from a C-47 onto a truck. A burning American airplane. An aircraft takes off from an airfield.
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