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| Italian battleship Impero being preparing for launching, Genova, Italy, 15 Nov 1939 | The Launching of Italian battleship Impero, Genova, Italy, 15 Nov 1939 | African-American soldiers of the US Army 92nd Infantry Division entering the Galleria Giuseppe Garibaldi, Genoa, Italy, 27 Apr 1945 | Displaced persons boarding merchant ship Svalbard at Genoa, Italy, Dec 1948; many of these passengers would later be disembarking in Australia |
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