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. 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. Damaged buildings and rubble in a street. Damaged buildings along a road. A U.S. Army tank with soldiers loaded onto it moves down a street past damaged buildings. A gutted building as an army truck moves past a sentry standing in the foreground.
Damage caused by Allied bombings in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II. Damaged buildings and rubble in a street. Damaged buildings along a road. Horse drawn carts drive past crumbled buildings. People walk past the damaged buildings. Civilians carry their belongings back into the town.
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.