Title:ITALIAN NAVY AT LAKE LADOGA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:GWY 803
Other titles:
Summary: Unedited film of Rear-Admiral Bertoldi visiting the Italian Motor Torpedo Boat base at Lake Ladoga in late June 1942.
Description: a) Bertoldi, (liaison officer for the Italian Navy at the German Navy High Command), lunches with Finnish Army and Naval officers, including Colonel Jaervinen (officer in charge of the defence of Lake Ladoga), and Lieutenant-Commander Bianchini (commanding MAS Squadron 12). Group emerges from building after lunch, probably at Lahdenpohja, before departure by car. Finnish civilians on bicycles in background. b) Same officers beside lake. c) Bertoldi inspects Finnish sailors. d) Bertoldi inspects and addresses recently arrived MAS Squadron 12 in a wood near the operational base of Sortanlahti. Accompanied by Bianchini and Jaervinen, who wears the Finnish Freedom Cross. e) Same officers visiting huts in a lakeside wood, including an observation post in a house overlooking Lake Ladoga.
Production Details: OKW (Production sponsor)
Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung Nord (Production company)
Bernsee, K (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bertoldi (Rear-Admiral) (person)
Bianchini (Lieutenant-Commander) (person)
Jaervinen (Colonel) (person)
Finnish Army (regiment/service)
Finnish Navy (regiment/service)
Italian Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: delegations, Italian international - military: Bertoldi visits Lake Ladoga motor torpedo boat base (object name)
society, Finnish military - friendship (object name)
Finland & Lake Ladoga (geography)
Finland & Lahdenpohja (geography)
