36th Division forces establish beachhead on Green Beach. Three bulldozers level beach. Naval Beach Patrol on duty in marked off beach sector. One man sends message over telegraph key while smoking a pipe. Sign on beach reads 'Beach CP Shore Party' One bulldozer pulls stalled jeep out of water. Barrage balloons float in sky over ships. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) U.S. 989 at beach.
Night view from behind a building wall. LST 282 (Landing Ship Tank) burns as a result of radio-controlled flying bomb released from German Dornier approximately 2100 hrs on D-Day of Operation Dragoon invading southern France. Location is Green Beach near Saint Raphael France. (World War II period).
View of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, D.C., DC 20002, United States) in Washington DC. People entering the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, D.C., DC 20002, United States). View of the National Mall, with the Washington Monument seen in the background. Aerial view of the National Mall in Washington DC. Aerial view of the U.S. Capitol park and the U.S. Capitol. View of the U.S. Capitol (First St SE, Washington, D.C., DC 20004, United States). The statue “Valor” by Leo Friedlander flanks the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Dedication under “Valor” reads “VALOR Leo Friedlander Sculptor CAST IN BRONZE MILAN 1950 A GIFT FROM THE PEOPLE OF ITALY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”. Bronze statues “Sacrifice” and “Valor” flank the Arlington Memorial Bridge (2912 Independence Ave SW, Washington, D.C., DC 20418, United States). The Lincoln Memorial building is seen. Cars driving in Washington DC. View of the National Gallery of Art (Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C., DC 20565, United States) in Washington DC. Sign reads ‘NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART”. “Madonna and Child” painting by Sandro Botticelli, on display at the National Gallery of Art. Ambassador Manlio Giovanni Brosio and an American official, Mr. Bunker, views the Alba Madonna by Raphael. View of the Alba Madonna painting. “Portrait of a Man” by Florentine painter Andrea del Castagno. A triptych from the Italian renaissance “The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene” by Pietro Perugino. “Saint George and the Dragon” by Raphael. Trees outside the White House. View of the White House (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., DC 20500, United States) in Washington DC. Italian cameraman uses camera labeled “La Settimana Incom”. Italian journalist captures on film President Dwight Eisenhower going out of the White House with men. Italian journalist nods with satisfaction. Fountain in front of the White House. Aerial view of the South Lawn at the White House and surrounding areas.
Uniformed U.S. war correspondents and U.S. Army officers explore the house and grounds of the French Chateau de Pont-Rilly, in Négreville near Normandy France, soon after the Invasion of Europe. (The chateau was designed in 1765 by architect Pierre-Raphaël de Lozon for the Marquis d'Ourville). U.S. Army officers in the balcony of the mansion overlooking the entrance. Exteriors of the palatial chateau. A large bomb hole is visible in the roof, right of the main entrance. A French boy points out something distant on the grounds of the Chateau. A swan in a pond. Exteriors of the mansion. At the end of July 1944, near the time this footage was shot, the chateau became the headquarters of Advance Section of Com Z, also known as "ADSEC" (Advance Section, Communications Zone).
Famous Italian paintings from the Uffizi Museum on exhibition in New York. Exterior view of vertical sign for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Personnel look at a painting on the wall. Another painting of a mother with her child. Officials read a document in hand. Men carrying the painting 'The Birth of Venus' (Sandro Botticelli). Man views the “The Madonna and child” by Giacomo Palma the Elder. The “Madonna della Seggiola” by Raphael. Bronze statue David by Andrea del Verrocchio.
The third anniversary of the signing of the Lateran Treaty in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini arrives at St. Peter's Basilica to meet Pope Pius XI (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City). An official party accompanied by Corazzieri (Carabinieri mounted division) escorts arrives. Mussolini gets off from a staff car. The flag of Vatican City is hoisted outside a building. Papal Swiss guards in colorful uniform accompany the officials down the Raphael Galleries to meet Pope Pius XI. Church bells ringing. Mussolini leaves after meeting the Pope as crowds cheer.