Views of cars such as a Lancia Aprilia arriving at King's Villa in Salerno. Two guards standing at the entrance of King's Villa. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Palmiro Togliatti and Count Carlo Sforza and several other cabinet members arrive back-to-back, including S. E. Sentore, S.E. Cott, Benedetto Croce, S.E. Abb, Guilio Rodino, Pietro Mancini. An Alfa Romeo staff car. Guards rush towards the cars and open car doors for dignitaries to get out. Marshal Pietro Badoglio along with other dignitaries standing at the entrance of villa and discussing. Dignitaries entering the villa after discussion. (World War II period).
Allied soldiers in a jeep and a British personnel carrier, drive past huge letters, spelling "DUCE," painted on the side of a massive concrete wall in Messina, during World War 2. Change of scene shows American soldier examining an Italian Pavesi military tractor. He is very intested in its unusual wheels. Change of scene shows the soldier climbing into the seat of another Pavesi tractor and checking out its controls. A large building across the street displays a British flag. An American technical sergeant offers an Italian civil policeman a cigarette. A closeup of the policeman as he smokes. The sergeant points to "Heil Rommel" written on a door, and other graffiti in chalk on a wall. He pauses to examine some wrecked Italian vehicles. Closeup of the wreckage.
Italian civilian firemen attempt to extinguish fire in Red-Cross truck and jeep which was shelled by enemy in Carrara-Massa area during World War II. Firemen hosing up Red-Cross truck and jeep. Men push the jeep.
United States lieutenant Colonel J. A. Heintges, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, interrogates two German prisoners captured by American paratroopers in World War II. One of the German prisoners is smiling.
Smoke rises from U.S. Army artillery shells striking on a hill in the Italian Campaign of World War 2. . Several knocked out American Sherman tanks from C Company, 760th Tank Battalion Santa Maria are shown. One leans off the dirt road partway into a ditch. Closeup of tread on a damaged Sherman tank. U.S. soldiers seen in a Sherman tank parked behind a damaged one that has a large hole in it from gunfire. An American soldier places his hand in the hole. Brief view of an Italian Semovente da 75/18 self-propelled gun. Glimpse of what appears to be a damaged Italian 37mm antitank gun.
Cardinal Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli being acclaimed as Pope Pius XII in Vatican City, Rome. Rites being performed at Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome to mark the passing of Pope Pius XI. The new Pope stands in a balcony with other dignitaries. Pope Pius XII wearing the papal tiara. Bells ringing in the Vatican. View of Saint Peter’s Basilica and Saint Peter’s Square. Italian women and a boy wearing black kneel in prayer at Saint Peter’s Square. Altar servers and Swiss Guards leading a procession inside the Saint Peter’s Basilica. Pope Pius XII carried on the sedia gestatoria blessing the crowds. Pope Pius XII seated while being flanked by the papal flabella (ostrich feather fans) in the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica. A priest crowns Pope Pius XII with the papal tiara. Pope Pius XII blesses the large crowd gathered in Saint Peter’s Square (00120 Vatican City) to greet him.
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