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.
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.
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.
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.
Damage caused by Allied bombings in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II. Wrecked ships and vessels in a harbor. A sentry stands on guard in the foreground. Damaged buildings near a water front. Men walk past them. A large undamaged dry dock and the city of Palermo in the background.