Refine Your Search

Sicily 1942 stock footage and images

- Showing 7 to 12 of 2534 results
Jagdgeschwader 53 Luftwaffe officers play with dog, paint planes in Sicily, WW2

Jagdgeschwader 53, also known as "Pik As" (Ace of Spades) Geschwader German Luftwaffe in Sicily, Italy during World War 2. Flags of Italy and Nazi Germany together. German officers play with a fox terrier dog, passing him to each other as he doggedly hangs on to a shoe while biting it. Nazi pilot, wearing a flight vest and an Iron Cross, plays cards with comrades. The "Pik As" (Ace of Spades) symbol on an airplane. German Luftwaffe pilot painting another of many Abschussbalken symbols of air victory on the tail of a plane. Mechanics fixing the engine of a fighter, likely a Messerschmitt Bf 109. A crane lifts a Daimler Benz 605 engine. Man spray paints “3” on a plane. A sign in German saying “Die an “dicke Luft” gewöhnten Jöge sind dem Pressluft rausch verfallen” (“Boys, who got used to “Thick Air”, are addicted to the high of compressed air” in German). A man picks up a fox terrier dog by the scruff of its neck and carriers it away.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675079111
Luftwaffe General Albert Kesselring visits Sicily, Luftwaffe DO-24 rescues pilot during WW2

Nazi Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring inspects an air base in Sicily during World War 2. General Kesselring reviews Luftwaffe troops. Luftwaffe officers assist General Kesselring in walking on muddy field after his boot is lost in the mud. General Kesselring and a Luftwaffe officer inspect a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter. A Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader 53 pilot returns to air base from a mission. Pilot exits fighter cockpit and salutes to his officer. German soldiers with life jackets on a boat, boarding a Dornier DO-24 seaplane. A cartoon on DO-24 depicting a Pinocchio like figure with telescope and goulashes. The Luftwaffe Seenotdienst (Air Sea Rescue Service) seaplane takes off. Pilot operates DO-24 seaplane. A radio operator inside seaplane. A German pilot survivor treading water near Malta. Two German soldiers lower themselves from the seaplane and rescue German pilot. DO-24 seaplane flying before landing in water. On land, German pilot is carried on a stretcher and into an ambulance.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675079112
Animated map depicts bombing of a British convoy by Axis aircraft in the Strait of Sicily during World War II.

A naval-air battle in the Strait of Sicily during World War II. Animated map shows the route of a British convoy from Gibraltar to Malta. Bombing of the British convoy by Axis aircraft is depicted by the animated map.

Date: 1942, August 11
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675070110
Italian Bombers attack Allied ships in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Sicily, Italy during World War II.

Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero torpedo bombers in flight over Sicily, Italy during World War 2. An Italian officer briefs crew members of torpedo and fighter aircraft before they leave for a mission in the Mediterranean. The flight crew dons equipment and boards an aircraft. Two pet dogs, a Boxer and an Alsatian, follow crew to bottom hatch of an airplane. The Boxer jumps in easily, but the Alsatian has difficulty. Pilots in the cockpits of aircraft flying at low altitude over the Mediterranean Sea. An Allied convoy is spotted underway. A battle ensues, with Italian bombers and torpedo planes attacking the ships, while the latter mount a strong defense with antiaircraft fire. Flak bursts leave black smoke in the sky. Italian planes releasing torpedoes. Smoke rising from two ships hit during the engagement.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675066913
German and Italian aircraft dive through intense flak to bomb a British convoy underway in the Strait of Sicily.

A naval-air battle in the Strait of Italy during World War II. A formation of Italian and German bombers over the Strait of Italy. Ships of a British convoy underway. British ships fire antiaircraft guns at Italian aircraft. Flak bursts in the sky. Italian bombers bomb the ships. Explosions near and on the ships. British ships are heavily bombed by a large number of Italian bombers. Many ships sink after exploding. Smoke billows up from the ships afire. Italian MASs (torpedo armed motorboats) head for a British convoy. British ships are torpedoed. Smoke rises after explosions on the ships. The bombing of the convoy continues at night. Interiors of an Italian submarine shows its crew members at work. A list of claimed British losses includes HMS Furious (47), HMS Eagle, HMS Manchester (C15), HMS Cairo (D87) and HMS Foresight (H68). Victorious Italian MASs underway and Italian aircraft in flight overhead. View of letter from Mussolini congratulating the Axis forces, read by narrator. View of Italian attack boats moving at high speed in ocean.

Date: 1942, August 11
Duration: 7 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675070112
Italian forces prepare to attack British convoys with bombers, torpedo boats, and submarines, during World War II.

Preparations for naval-air battle in the Strait of Italy during World War 2. Italian fighter Reggiane Re 2000 Falco aircraft taxi on an airfield. Bombs on the airfield. Italian ground crew place a camera in the wing of a Navy S79 trimotor bomber, that then taxis and takes off from airfield at Trapani. Italian crews board MASs (torpedo armed motorboats) at a Sicilian harbor. The MASs pull away from the harbor. Crew members aboard the MASs heading out to attack British convoys in the Strait of Sicily. An Italian submarine submerging.

Date: 1942, August 11
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675070111