Steel plates fabricated for use in ships and submarines. Submarines are seen at dockside. A large ship is launched, not yet outfitted. Observers watch from small boat. A destroyer cruises by at high speed, smoke billowing from its stack. A heavy cruiser fires guns. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Benito Mussolini head of the Italian Social Republic, meets with his cabinet during World War II. Among notables attending the cabinet meeting, are Defense Minister Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and Cabinet vice-chairman, Francesco Maria Barracu who confer before the meeting and with Mussolini during the meeting. Change of scene to Marshal Graziani being greeted by German military officers as he enters a building to confer with Marshal Erwin Rommel and his staff who were sent to oversee the bolstering of Italian defenses. Marshal Graziani confers with the German officers. Marshal Rommel bids him farewell as he leaves the building. Rommel and accompanying German staff officers leave in a car to inspect Italian defenses (possibly Liguria region). They observe Italian workers building concrete fortifications. They visit sites where a German sentry is seen walking along a fortification wall and German troops are seen manning a variety of heavy guns in coastal defenses.
British Medical corpsmen attend to German prisoners who survived LST (Landing Ship, Tank) foundering on Italian coast. (World War II period).
Pre-invasion at start of the Italian Campaign. Group of pilots assigned to piper cub airplanes pose on deck of a Landing Ship Tank (LST) in World War 2. Top row, first two shown from left are Pilots Dutch Shultz and Fred Boucher. Pilot, Lieutenant Dutch Schultz, poses in cockpit of his airplane. Boucher's Piper L-4, "Sad Sack 3" with Buzz letters BE is seen behind. Cub planes parked on deck of the LST. ( Among those seen are Cub planes with Buzz letters BD and BB.) Crewmen ease Cub BE down a steel ramp. View of Cub airplanes parked on both sides of improvised flight deck on the LST.
Pre-invasion loading and maneuvers of Piper Cub aircraft in Worls War 2. Man revs up engine of cub plane aboard LST. First cub plane takes off from LST and circles ship.
Pre-invasion maneuvers of air. Cub plane takes off from runway of LST and circles ship. Boat underway at sea. Second Cub plane takes off from LST. Men look at plane as it takes off.
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