Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The people of Militello reacting to news of Mussolini's resignation; nurses at a hospital and infantry storming and capturing an Italian position.
Description: A crowd surrounds a man on a lorry. Close up of the man addressing the crowd. He is Salvadore Campanelli, an anti-fascist lawyer, announcing the news of Mussolini's downfall. The crowd applauding. Close up of people laughing. Sicilians pelting portraits of Mussolini with rotten fruit. Italian prisoners of war join in the celebrations. Four Sicilian soldiers being marched back to their homes by a British Field Security corporal. Women seated in the street sewing. Women and children run towards the released prisoners.
Close up of a Red Cross flag on a building. Men lifting a stretcher from an ambulance. British nurses treating the sick outdoors at a hospital not yet fully operating. A nurse leaving a hospital tent. A man on a stretcher is given a drink. Nurses packing equipment. A board reads 'Reception'. A group of nurses drinking tea.
Men climbing over a wall and advancing up a slope. The men moving forwards with Bren guns.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Hopkinson, Peter Richard Gunton1920-06-272007-06-28Hopkinson started him career in the film industry at the age of 16 as a clapper boy at Ealing Studios, then working at Denham Studios. He volunteered for overseas service in 1941and was an AFPU photographer and informant in the "Wartime Filming" interview project. He was sent to Persia initially to make a film about getting supplies through to Russia and made many other films in the Western Desert. He joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). His career after the war was mainly filming documentaries and his last documentary was Whickers War, made in 2004. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea (person)
Keywords: Italy 1939-1945 (theme)
Militello, Sicily, Italy (geography)
Operation Husky, Allied Invasion of Sicily 1943, Italy, Second World War (event)
