Allies Enter Naples

Series

Series Name

Warwork News

Issue

Issue No.

S15/33

Paramount Issue No.

1316

Date Released

11 Oct 1943

Released by Paramount

11 Oct 1943

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cotton Goes to War: The Other Man’s Job
2. 2Allies Enter Naples

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 2

Summary

Generals Montgomery, commanding the Eighth Army, and Clark, commanding the Fifth Army, join forces to capture Naples. Allied forces attack enemy at front and rear. German snipers rounded up. At Torre Annunziata, the German concentration camps are liberated, and Jewish prisoners marry. Allies reach Pompeii. Retreating Nazis bombed. Three newspaper reporters killed in raid - graves of same. General Clark of the Eighth Army is welcomed. Young Nazi prisoners taken into custody.

Keywords

Ethnic groups; Social events; Prisoners of war; Marriages; Military; Funerals; History and archaeology

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Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film

Phone

020 7416 5291

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Address

Lambeth Road
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Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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