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1943 WORLD WAR 2 / ITALY: Allied armies and advance upon and taking of Naples
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2:54Now PlayingDate: 11th October 1943
Location: GERBINI, SICILY VESUVIUS POMPEII, ITALY TORRE ANNUNCIATA, ITALY TARANTO, ITALY STROMBOLI IS., ITALY SCAFATI, ITALY SALERNO, ITALY NAPLES, CARVA, TARANTO, BARI, BRINDISI, STROMBOLI IS., TORRE ANNUNCIAT
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Allies enter Naples (British Olympic News)
ITALY: Naples:
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Tanks lined up along road / General Sir Bernard Montgomery (Commander, British Eigth Army) and General Mark Clark (Commander, US Fifth Army) along / Montgomery talking to British and US war correspondents / Allied jeeps and trucks along road / truck towing artillery gun / mobile howitzer along road / ruined buildings / troops shifting rubble / earthmover shifting rubble
Carva:
Tank along road through town / tank in street / British soldier aiming gun over wall / building / British soldiers firing at building / woman bandaging head of British soldier
Taranto:
Taranto harbour / ships in harbour / Italian prisoners unloading supplies from ship.
Bari:
Italian soldier along street on horse drawn gun carriage / Italian soldiers in old fashioned army followed by more modern lorry.
Brindisi:
Brindisi harbour with old fashioned masted Italian training ship / fascist monument in harbour / Italian seaplanes on water / General Pietro Badoglio down steps out of building with British officer / Badoglio and British Officer.
Sicily: Gerbini Airfield:
US P-38 Lightning fighters lined up at airfield / airman opening cockpit / Lightning fighter aircraft taking off / Mitchell bombers taking off / Mitchell bomber aircraft flying in formation
Stromboli:
Air view (aerial) of smoke coming from volcano / aircraft flying over island of Stromboli / Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight
Naples:
Air view (aerial) of bombs bursting around Naples area/ bombs dropping from Mitchell bomber aircraft / air view of bombs exploding on ground
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