MILAN, ITALY ; VISIT TO 5TH ARMY COMMAND POST, VERONA, ITALY ; 6TH SOUTH AFRICAN DIVISION, VIC CASTEL-FRANCO (?), ITALY

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Cote VIS 11176
Fonds VIS
Titre MILAN, ITALY ; VISIT TO 5TH ARMY COMMAND POST, VERONA, ITALY ; 6TH SOUTH AFRICAN DIVISION, VIC CASTEL-FRANCO (?), ITALY
Durée 00:11:29
Date de production 1945
Son Muet
Résumé Milan, Italy 30 April 1945
LS, MS, pan, crowd of workmen in front of bombed-out automobile factory.
VS, wrecked buildings of factory.
Seq : Surrender of German garrison in front of Hotel Zurin as troops load weapons and equipment into their own trucks.
MSs, German officers picking out fresh eggs from crates and eating them.
VS, truck convoy carrying British troops being greeted by civilians as it drives thru streets.
VS, American troops in trucks and tanks moving thru streets.
VS, crowds of Italians cheering entry of British and American troops.

VISIT TO 5TH ARMY COMMAND POST Verona, Italy 3 May 1945
MSs, CUs, Commander John S Young, Asst Foreign Economic Administrator and Congressman Everett M Dirksen at airport.

6TH SOUTH AFRICAN DIVISION Vic Castel-Franco (?), Italy 30 April 1945
VS, stalled convoy being held up by bomb crater in road.
MSs, South African troops and Italian civilians filling in bomb crater on road.
MSs, CUs, convoy moving over filled-in crater.
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