FIELD MARSHAL JAN SMUTS ARRIVES IN ROME, ITALY ; REFUGEES AT CESANO, ITALY Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 1390 111 SOURCE: AFCE (0-877) Card 1 of 2 ADCFILM: Arch & APC MP, 859' ea, Silent 1390-1 FIELD MARSHAL JAN SMUTS ARRIVES IN Rome, Italy: 23 Jun 1944 Field Marshal Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa arrives at Ciampino airport in C-47, and is greeted by South African Brig Himgeston and British Brig Matthew. MS, CUs, VIPs enter sedans and depart. MS, ground crew at airfield. REFUGEES AT CESANO, ITALY, 22 June We MS, starving Italian woman lies on sidewalk. CU, dirty Italian child at entrance to one of the living quarters. VS, starving and diseased civilian is carried into hospital on makeshift litter. Italian padre (Idalian Army chaplain) visits among refugees and speaks with British Army captain. VS, public water trough as women wash ragged clothes. CU, MIS, aged Italian women. Various MSs, American and British Red Cross workers. Record Group 111 LS, refugees crowd near kitchen area with their pails to receive food. MSs, CUs, small children and aged woman as they eat. Accession III - NAV - 210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER. 35-11 35TH AVE. LIC 1. NY. ERB/mn Signal Corps ADC 1390 111 SOURCE: AFCF (0-877) Card 2 of 2 ADCFILM: Arch & APC MP, 8591 ea, Silent 1390-2 REFUGEES AT CESANO, ITALY, 22 June 44 CONT'D VS, Italian nurses and nuns enter and leave hospital bldgs, speak with doctors at doorway. VS, refugees dig latrine drainage ditches. CU, children wash hands and fill pails at leak in water pipe. IS, refugee camp which once was site for Mussolini's model factory. IS, partisans bring in captured German soldiers to the PW enclosure. MS, MPs hand rations to partisans. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY ERB/mp Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities