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Italians apply for jobs and U.S. engineers repair water facilities in Naples, Italy (WW2)
An Allied Military Government headquarters building in Naples, Italy during World War II. People crowd on either side of streets. Vehicles drive on a road. The Italians crowd to apply for jobs. U.S. engineers repair water facilities. Water tanks near a bay. Two engineers put a hose in water. Men and women carry water containers and walk on a road. An aircraft lands at an airfield. Commander of the U.S. 5th Army General Mark Wayne Clark arrives. Allied 5th Army units march northward. A landing craft arrives at a shore. Troops get off from the craft. A soldier in the foreground gives a signal. The troops fire artillery. A wrecked aircraft at an airfield. Nazi German prisoners embark a transport ship for prison camps. The prisoners aboard the ship.
USAAF 321st bomb group B-25s attack bridge near Capua, Italy., during World War II
B-25 of the U.S. Army Air Forces 321st Bombardment Group parked at Grottaglie Airfield in Italy, during World War 2. It displays nose art showing two cartoon characters and lettering reading: "Sylvester the Snarp." Two characters are shown. The smallest shoulders a bomb. Missions flown by the plane are recorded with bombs painted on its fuselage. Momentary glimpse of another B-25 parked in the distance. Scene shifts to aerial view of bends in the Volturno River near Capua, Italy. At lower right of image, smoke can be seen rising from explosions as bombs strike a bridge over the river and nearby roadways. View from overflying aircraft is obscured momentarily by cloud cover. Then network of roads is clearly seen. Scene shifts to B-25 bombers flying in formation.
B-17 bombers depart Popesti Airfield during evacuation of Allied prisoners of war (WW2)
United States Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers depart from Popesti Airfield during 15th Air Force Operation Reunion (Operation Gunn) during World War II. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taxiing in the airfield. A B-17 Flying Fortress bomber starts its engines. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber takes off from the airfield. A group of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in flight heading to Italy. Men viewing the sky from the gun turret.
Paratroopers board a C-47 Skytrain aircraft and Waco C-G4 gliders to invade Sicily, Italy during World War II.
Allied Invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Soldiers jump from a platform during training exercises. Group of paratroopers gathered at an airfield. Aircraft parked in the background. Paratroopers walk in a single file. Soldiers enter United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Waco CG-4 military glider. Soldiers seated aboard CG-4 military glider. Paratroopers board United States Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft. C-47 aircraft takes off from an airfield. C-47s fly in formation. C-47 aircraft takes off as it tows a CG-4 military gliders. Pilots at control of CG-4 military glider. Aircraft fly in formation.
Henry L. Stimson and Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark review troops and visit wounded soldiers at a hospital in Italy (WW2)
Secretary of War, Henry L Stimson visits Italy during World War II. United States aircraft parked. Mr. Stimson along with Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark at an airfield. They get into an army jeep and talk to each other. They visit wounded troops in a hospital. They review troops. The troops salute. Mr. Stimson and Lieutenant General Clark drive away in an army jeep.
Nazi German paratrooper commandos rescue Mussolini from imprisonment in Italy during World War 2
Nazi German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini from confinement in the Campo Imperatore Hotel at the Gran Sasso massif (Gran Sasso mountain, the highest peak in the Apennines range, Italy). Military trucks are seen driving up the mountain road toward the Gran Sasso mountain. German soldiers walk along the road. Lieutenant Georg Freiherr von Berlepsch, leader of the 1st Company, Fallschirmjäger (German Air Force paratroopers) briefs the troopers. Next the troopers are seen crossing a plateau as they head toward the Campo Imperatore buildings. Closeups of the buildings. Benito Mussolini in black overcoat and hat, seen leaving the hotel in the company of his German rescuers. Paratrooper reporting by radio. View of Alpine cable car system used to depart from the mountain. Major Otto-Harald Mors (sometimes incorrectly written as Harald-Otto Mors) commander of the Parachute Regiment salutes Lieutenant von Berlepsch, as his Company returns from the mountain. They shake hands. German Colonel Otto Skorzeny, operations commander, walks with group escorting Mussolini. The Mussolini and Colonel Skorzeny climb aboard a German Luftwaffe Fieseler Fi 156C-3/Trop Storch short takeoff and landing liaison aircraft. Troopers wave as the aircraft takes off from the mountainside. Complete change of scene shows a German Junkers, Ju-52 aircraft in flight overhead. Next, Adolf Hitler is seen rendering a traditional military hand salute as he stands, watching the airplane taxi and park at the airfield serving his Wolf's Lair headquarters near Rastenburg on the Eastern Front. Mussolini steps from the plane and is warmly greeted by Hitler. His son-in-law, Count Gian Galeazzo Ciano, embraces and kisses Mussolini, who then steps into a mercedes touring car displaying both Italian and Nazi symbols. Arriving at the Wolf's Lair, Mussolini is greeted by German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Hitler escorts Mussolini through the building. Next, the two are seen leaving the building and driving back to the airport, where Hitler and entourage bid farewell to Mussolini, who climbs aboard the Ju-52, again. Hitler waves as the plane taxis out.
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