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1943 WORLD WAR 2 / ITALY: Allied troops around Naples and Foggia
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2:48Now PlayingDate: 18th October 1943
Location: VOLTURNO, ITALY VESUVIUS, ITALY FOGGIA, NAPLES, ITALY CAVA, FOGGIA, ITALY CAVA, ITALY NAPLES, ITALY
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Allies cross the Volturno
Cava:
Town / allied tank along street as local carries bundles in foreground / town being shelled / wrecked German tank at side of road / German prisoners marched along
Location unknown:
british soldiers running to man 17 pounder guns / shell being wiped down / gun loaded / gun fired / gun reloaded / gun being aimed / gun fired
Foggia:
Signs "Foggia" on railway station building damaged by gun and shellfire with tracks covered in rubble from fallen masonry / twisted and bent railway tracks / remains of power station / wrecked buildings / airfield / US transport aircraft / lorry backing up to aircraft / Australian troops unloading oil drums from aircraft
Naples:
View over city with Vesuvius in background / ship laying on its side in the harbour with Red cross symboil painted on funnel / buildings wrecked on quayside / damage to harbour / people crowded onto street / people trying to get water as soldiers try to control crowd / Italian Prime Minister General Pietro Badoglio and British Lieutenant General Noel Mason-Macfarlane (Allied Control Commission for Italy) talking with war correspondents / US General Mark Clark (Allied Commander in Italy) from jeep / Clark talking with US General Matthew Ridgway / Clark boarding Piper Cub aircraft aircraft taxiing onto road used as runway and taking off
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