Americans celar wreckage from Civitavecchia harbor. Smoke rises from a dynamite blast touched off by U.S.

Americans celar wreckage from Civitavecchia harbor. Smoke rises from a dynamite blast touched off by U.S. Army engineers to break up a beached ship blocking the Italian harbor of Civitavecchia. Rubble is cleared from the docks and reconstruction work progresses on the port serving Rome. Shortly after the Italian capital was liberated, American Army engineers, aided by Italians, began to make Civitavecchia useful for Allied shipping operations, similar to the rebuilding of the port of liberated Cherbourg in Northern France