Enemy fortifications in Sicily, Italy during World War II. A wrecked house used as a fortification by the Italians. Rubble in the foreground. An Italian sign on the building. Trucks move past the house. Another building with a sloping roof. An Allied soldier near the hut as he looks at a piece of a cane net.
Enemy fortifications in Sicily, Italy during World War II. Rows of trees on either side of a road as seen from a window. An Allied soldier opens and closes a window. An Italian sign on a wall above the window. A soldier opens the window. Exteriors of the fortifications. Another old building that served as an Italian fortification at the end of a road.
German aircraft in Sicily, Italy during World War II. A formation of German Junkers JU-52 aircraft fly over water. German paratroopers seated in JU-52s talk. The paratroopers jump from the aircraft. They descend and land. Trees and mountains in the background. German paratroopers jump from a Heinkel HE-111 aircraft. The paratroopers land. Supply parachutes land. German troops in a ground combat. German soldiers fire large artillery guns. Explosions occur.
Allied artillery and aircraft strike coast of Sicily, Italy during World War II. An Italian ship underway at sea off the cost of Sicily. Smoke rises from the coast as Allied aircraft bombard it. Italian MZ boats and ships in a harbor as they evacuate Axis troops. Explosions occur at sea due to Allied bombing.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Allied warships underway in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Sicily. Explosions occur in the background on the coast. Soldiers come down a landing net onto a landing craft. Soldiers loaded onto a landing craft as it pulls away. Landing crafts head for the beach. U.S. Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton looks through a pair of binoculars towards the shore.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Three landing crafts in surf. The landing crafts approach the shore. U.S. troops get off a landing craft. Allied soldiers at a beach as they unload ammunition cases from a landing craft. The soldiers dig emplacements on the beach. Equipment and vehicles on the beach. An American flag planted in the sand. Soldiers come onto the shore from a pontoon causeway. The pontoon causeway leading to an LST (Landing Ship Tank). Soldiers walk along the causeway and come onto the beach at Gela. Some vehicles on the causeway.