Major General William Beverly Campbell, Lieutenant General Mark William Clark and other officers arrives by jeep at 5th Army held buildings in Florence, Italy, during World War 2. Light snow covers the ground. General Campbell and party inspect various ordnance installations. Cars of Campbell and officers pass past building. They go to General Clark's mess hall. Campbell gets in jeep.
Gas workers strike in Rome, Italy. Gas workers sit on road. A man sits with a whistle in his mouth. Policemen stand in crowd. They help him stand. Crowd on road. They protest with placards in hand.
Film opens with view from a high point of the city of Rome, Italy. St. Peter's Basilica is seen in the background. Camera focuses on a group of men crowded together in a fenced area atop a construction project. Closer view reveals Benito Mussolini wielding a pick alongside other workers. After a moment, he puts the pick down and goes to the end of the area where he stands on something to make him visible above the others, and gives a fascist salute. View of St. Peter's from the elevated work site. Closeup of ordinary workers clearing rubble from the construction site. Film goes black momentarily and then shows the crowded work site seen in the earlier footage. Mussolini is handed the pick and uses it for a longer time than previously shown. He and others leave the work site. More views of St. Peter's Basilica. Views of trams and light traffic on a street below. More views of apartment houses and St. Peter's. Film interrupted and then shows closeup of men working on the construction site.
A U.S. Army Sherman tank moves along a narrow dirt road in Italy during World War 2. It raises lots of dust as it proceeds. Next, U.S. Infantry are seen moving along a dirt road toward some abandoned fortified positions. View of some U.S. soldiers walking past heavily sandbagged fortifications. Infantry pass a sign on a prominent building in main part of town that reads: "Scauri." They inspect other buildings in the area. Two U.S. Army photographers are seen walking along the town road.
Statue of the Roman poet, Horace, who wrote of the scarcity of water in Apulia. Villagers drawing water from a communal well. A woman waters crop from a bucket. Villagers gather as officials open tap of new water supply provided with help from America. The supply comes from a 700 mile aquaduct that brings water across the Appenine mountains from other side of Italy. Scenes of Apulia inundated by flood waters during two months of rainy season. Men at work building dikes to control flooding.
View of the French Signal Center building in Prata, Italy. French girl types outside the building as French men dictates. View of a French bivouac area.
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