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Production Tour (Crew) Italy • France • Germany
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📍 Day 1
Date — Friday, 10/24/2025
Route — Arr Naples – Caiazzo – Salerno
Overnight — Salerno
Footage — Caiazzo: Franco Pepe pizza; Salerno: landing beaches
Assets/Interviews — Franco Pepe
Notes — Open 18:30–00:30
📍 Day 2
Date — Saturday, 10/25/2025
Route — Chiusano – Dragoni/Alife – Venafro – Abbey Cassino
Overnight — (not specified)
Footage — Chiusano: first KIA; Dragoni: 2nd Volturno crossing; Venafro: Winterline Museum; Abbey: stained glass
Assets/Interviews — Luciano Bucci (Owner Winterline museum – collecting since young kid with granddad), Pino Valente (Hotel owner – kids classes – trails – international projects)
📍 Day 3
Date — Sunday, 10/26/2025
Route — Anzio – Lanuvio – (Rome) Grosseto
Overnight — Grosseto
Footage — Anzio: harbour front; Mussolini Canal; Lanuvio: road to Rome; Rome cityscapes if needed
📍 Day 4
Date — Monday, 10/27/2025
Route — Grosseto – Suvereto – Belvedere – Sasseta
Overnight — Livorno
Footage — Suvereto: town views; Belvedere: overview, access and escape routes, house-to-house combat
Assets/Interviews — Roberto Simoncini (Collector), Dario Taffi.
📍 Day 5
Date — Tuesday, 10/28/2025
Route — Hill 140 – Castellina Marittima – Vada
Overnight — Livorno
Footage — Hill 140: trail and positions on the hill, information panels; Castellina: town representatives; Vada: info panel
Assets/Interviews —
Toscana ’44 — Damiano Bartoletti — young re-enactors — cleared trails and positions on Hill 140 — continue to add info panels
Landowner memorial park — eye witness to devastation left at the house by Germans
Town Council Castellina Marittima — very supportive!
ANPI Rossignano/Vada
📍 Day 6
Date — Wednesday, 10/29/2025
Route — Pisa – Arno crossings
Overnight — Genoa
Footage — Pisa: city, bivouac area outside city; Mantignano: graffiti bridge
Assets/Interviews — Maurizio dell’Agnello (Local historian protecting the bridge)
📍 Day 7
Date — Thursday, 10/30/2025
Route — Menton – Nice
Overnight — Nice
Footage — Menton: beach, city; Nice: promenade, hotels, clubs
📍 Day 8
Date — Friday, 10/31/2025
Route — L’Escarene – Sospel
Overnight — Nice
Footage — L’Escarene: school, chapel; Sospel: Agaisen, plaque
Assets/Interviews — Robert Giuge (Local supporter with personal connections to veterans — responsible for renaming street), Maurice — Alice — Marion Zeller (Maurice was one of the children at the party), Head of school Shig Doi (continues to make a Christmas donation every year)
📍 Day 9
Date — Saturday, 11/01/2025
Route — Epinal (Driving day)
Overnight — Epinal
Footage — Ad hoc stops along the way
📍 Day 10
Date — Sunday, 11/02/2025
Route — Bruyeres
Overnight — Epinal
Footage — Bruyeres: town, hills, detrucking area; Granges-Aumontzey: retirement home
Assets/Interviews — Jean Bonjean (Honorary Mayor), Quentin Thiaville, Michel Pierrat, Hilaire Martial (Peace and Freedom Trail), Marion (Retirement home at Granges-Aumontzey)
📍 Day 11
Date — Monday, 11/03/2025
Route — Biffontaine – Borne 6
Overnight — Strasbourg
Footage — Biffontaine: Borne 6, Banzai hill, Lost Bn area
Assets/Interviews — Michel Valentin
📍 Day 12
Date — Tuesday, 11/04/2025
Route — Augsburg (Driving day)
Overnight — Augsburg
Footage — Ad hoc stops along the way
Assets/Interviews — US Military base
📍 Day 13
Date — Wednesday, 11/05/2025
Route — Kaufering – (Dachau) – Waakirchen
Overnight — Innsbruck
Footage — Kaufering: various sub-camps; Waakirchen: monuments; town “then and now” shots
Assets/Interviews — Florian Voller (Driving force behind 522nd monument), History teacher
📍 Day 14
Date — Thursday, 11/06/2025
Route — Aulla (Driving day)
Overnight — Massa
Footage — Aulla: town, “escape route”
📍 Day 15
Date — Friday, 11/07/2025
Route — Pietrasanta – Azzano – Massa
Overnight — Massa
Footage — Pietrasanta: Sadao Munemori, town sculptures; Azzano: pano views; Massa: monument, air raid shelter, La Conca alleys
Assets/Interviews — Marco Bertini (Georgia Hill trail), Alessandro Mazzucchelli (Michelangelo)
📍 Day 16
Date — Saturday, 11/08/2025
Route — Pasquilio – Monte Folgorito
Overnight — Massa
Footage — Pasquilio: Kashiwa museum, resistance church; Monte Folgorito: landscape, defensive positions
Assets/Interviews — Francesco Rocchi ( Linea Gotica Tirrenica — vintage vehicles), Davide del Giudice (Historian, author, guide), Federico Santucci Cercolo (Kashiwa museum & cook), ANPI Montignoso: Onesta and Angelo (Nazi execution and baskets)
📍 Day 17
Date — Sunday, 11/09/2025
Route — Tendola – San Terenzo Monti
Overnight — Massa
Footage — Tendola: access point, memorial park; San Terenzo Monti: massacre museum, German retreat;
Assets/Interviews — Mario Mariani (Force of nature), Roberto Oligeri (Local journalist — takes care of massacre museum — owner of Stanley Hayami helmet), Mario Pomini (Alerted approaching Nisei of German presence)
📍 Day 18
Date — Monday, 11/10/2025
Route — Airport transfer