U.S. soldiers in bomb-damaged port facilities at Messina, Sicily, during World War 2. A U.S. Army Technical Sergeant wearing a holstered sidearm, walks past an overturned railroad locomotive. He stops and picks up an abandoned Italian Breda 30 light machine gun. He checks the weapon's action and holds it up in firing position. Another U.S. soldier rummages amongst abandoned Italian small arms. The Tech Sergeant climbs aboard an abandoned port utility tug vehicle. The camera focuses on the side profile of the vehicle. A crane on a railway is seen near a damaged ship. Chunks of concrete pier are seen and damaged port machinery. A small fire burns at the base of a hill near a rail line at the port.
United States Army General George S. Patton Jr. examines a field map with other army officers under a camouflaged netting during the Invasion of Sicily in World War 2. General Patton points to map while military officers listen. Hundreds of Italian prisoners-of-war, holding white flags, march through the devastated streets of Messina, Sicily. A United States military jeep drives on the road near prisoners. General George S. Patton is smiling with other military officials. General George S. Patton, Major General Lucian K. Truscott, and General Hobart S. Gay in conversation beside a military jeep in Palermo. General George S. Patton, while seated in the passenger seat of jeep, talks to an officer. A United States Army cameraman is shooting smoke and flames from trees behind a wall. Smoke in nearby building.