Aerial view railroad freight yard in Milazzo, Sicily. Railway station freight yard after devastation from the Allied Invasion of Sicily during World War 2. Wrecked train cars in front of Milazzo station. A destroyed automobile on top of a flat car. Upended rail cars, tracks and rubble are scattered all over the Milazzo railway station freight yard.
Lieutenant General George S Patton leaves headquarters in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II. He climbs into his custom-armored M3A1White Scout Car, equipped with two machine guns, and accompanied by staff, drives off. General Patton standing along roadside waving as his troops drive past in vehicles. General Patton, Major General Geoffrey Keyes and Colonel Campanole seated in jeep in one of the cities and look at maps while Maj Gen. Lucian Truscott stands next to the jeep. The generals ride through the streets and enter a building.
Messina railway station and port in Sicily after bombings done by U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. Damage caused to harbor area with debris outside a building. A painting shows Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Interiors of a building. Bombed building and harbor facilities. U.S. soldier stands next to Nazi German NSV sign (National Socialist People's Welfare Organization) identifying a service station. He looks at a booklet, perhaps to translate the sign (bahnhofsdienst). More views of destruction from the bombing.
U.S. landing operations during the invasion of Gela in Sicily, Italy during World War II. A U.S. DUKW (six-wheel drive amphibious truck) arrives on a shore. DUKWs advance inland. U.S. troops jump down from the amphibious trucks. Supply boxes are stacked. The troops unload supply crates from a landing craft at the beach. Heavy equipment unloaded from an LST (Landing Ship Tank) at an Italian seaport.
Ruins in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War2. Damage and debris around the harbor in Palermo. A beached ship shows a large hole in the side of the ship. U.S. troops look at the hole. An explosion on a damaged building. Black smoke billows up from ammunition being detonated on a field. Monte-Pellegrino is visible in background of some scenes.
U.S. soldiers work on a U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader aircraft in Gela, Sicily, Italy during World War II. Two U.S. soldiers work on the engine of an A-36 Invader aircraft parked on an airfield. Two soldiers take a bomb off a truck and roll it over to other soldier who installs fins. The soldiers load bombs on the A-36. The soldiers fuel the aircraft. A maintenance crew works on the aircraft. The bomb is loaded under the wing of the A-36.