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Aerial view of Palermo, Sicily harbor covered by mechanized smoke screen of US Army during Invasion of Sicily in WW2
Mechanized smoke screen surrounds the harbor of Palermo, Italy during World War 2. Thick smoke screen, provided by the 69th and 78th Chemical Smoke Generator Companies of the United States Army, covers the view of Palermo old town, the Gulf of Mondello, and the nearby Palermo mountain range.
The Allied Military Government (AMG) begins immediate efforts to cleanup and rebuild Liberated areas of Sicily in World War II.
Allied Military Government efforts to rebuild Sicily after capturing it from Axis forces during World War 2. Italian men needing employnent board an open truck for transport to a job site. Workers standing with American soldiers preparing to work. A huge crowd of men pushing and shoving outside an Allied Military Government (AMG) labor hiring headquarters where they were offered decent wages to begin rebuilding after the war's destruction. Italian men, as well as American soldiers, rebuilding roads in the Alpine region of Italy, where German forces had destroyed them as they withdrew. U.S. Army engineers using a bulldozer, to clear and smooth a road. A large dump truck spreading new gravel for a highway bed. A team of workers manning a cable to pull down a damaged portion of a building. A British Army officer and a Colonial soldier in a turban, set explosive charges to destroy a bomb-damaged building. They detonate the charges and bring down the entire large building. Bulldozers at work on huge piles of rubble. A steam shovel being employed to clear large piles of debris. Men at work in Palermo, to clear entire streets buried in rubble. Men clearing rubble near piles of twisted steel building girders. Rubble being moved by horse-drawn carts and dumped into the sea. Italian masons at work building new homes and refurbishing old ones. In views three months after the original Allied landing in Sicily during July,1943, Palermo is seen well on the way to restoration. School children, including girls with brooms, walking to a place needing cleanup. Views of them cleaning steps and windows. Citizens picking up debris from streets and sidewalks. A man using a hose to clean a street and sidewalk in the city.
A medical officer decorates U.S. soldiers with the Purple Hearts in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Water ambulances come in to a pier. A wounded soldier on a litter is placed in a new ambulance. A medical officer decorates U.S. soldiers with the Purple Hearts ion Palermo. Other soldiers lined up in the background. A dead German soldier on a dirt road. Surgeons perform an operation in artificial lights. The medical officer decorates the soldiers.
Wounded Allied soldiers are being looked after at by nurses in a hospital in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. An Allied soldier talks to a wounded lying on a stretcher in Palermo. Wounded soldiers on litters lying side by side along a wall. A nurse attends to a wounded soldier. Soldiers lined up as they get their identification checked by an officer when they move out of a hospital building. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar Bradley confers with Major General J. Lawton Collins. Later they are seen seated at a table under a tree discussing plans. A wrecked German Tiger tank of 2./s.Pz.Abt.504 (504th Heavy Tank Battalion) outside 49, Corso Indipendenza, Acate, Sicily.
Wrecked German and British aircraft in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Allied soldiers aboard a water ambulance underway at sea. Allied officers aboard a ship. German and British aircraft on a field in Palermo. A wrecked aircraft on a field.
Men repair a hole in the hull of a destroyer escort in Palermo harbor in Sicily, Italy during World War II.
Damage caused by Allied bombings in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II. A damaged lighthouse with a harbor in the background. Sailors repair a hole in the hull of a U.S. Navy destroyer escort ship in the harbor. Men on the dock lower a wooden cover to the hole.