Film opens with animated map depicting paths of Allied forces invading Italy from Sicily. View from beach as American soldiers run ashore from landing craft. Shells explode nearby. Glimpse of large building with barbed wire strung in front and smoke rising from explosion. Soldier near a jeep under fire. Numerous others obscured by smoke as they wade ashore under fire. M4 Sherman tank being driven ashore from a Landing Ship Tank (LST). A soldier on shoreline signals with flags while standing in front of an LST with its ramp open. LST 375 is seen in background. American soldiers firing a 90 mm M1 anti-aircraft gun set up on the shore. Bomb exploding offshore. View from high above a city of a bomb striking and sinking an oil tanker ship. Another bomb exploding nearby. Dense black smoke billowing from a bombed ship in a harbor. More bombs exploding near ships.View from a ship as a bomb explodes only yards away from her. Smoke issuing from a bombed burning transport ship. A pair of wading M10 tank destroyers move along the beach. Soldiers ride on an M10 tank destroyer through an Italian town. Animated map shows range of Allied advance up Italy from the boot. It then shows a circling movement to strike at Nettuno, Italy. Views of American troops being welcomed in Nettuno. Glimpse of an Landing Ship Tank (LST) driving onto a beach.
Allied Invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber aircraft in flight. USAAF B-24 Liberator heavy bomber aircraft in flight. View of lowered landing gear of B-24 aircraft as it taxis on airfield. B-24 aircraft lands. Crew member signals as aircraft lands. View of engines of United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber aircraft. Pilots climbs out of B-24 aircraft . They remove stretcher from B-24 aircraft aircraft and put the stretcher into an ambulance. Crew members get in a truck. Soldier looks at flak damage. Bullet holes seen in fuselage of an aircraft. Flak damaged sections of B-24 aircraft. Pilot and crew member walk by a tent. American flag flutters in wind.
The Allied Forces crush the Axis armies in the Mediterranean during World War II. Italy surrenders. The Allied Forces enter Messina. The American flag flies over the municipal corporation of Messina. U.S. soldiers interact with local Italian citizens and greet children. Soldier talking to a a young Italian girl. Wrecked German ships in a harbor. An Allied soldier talks on a radio. Fighting in Italian mainland. Scenes of Mussolini walking. Italians throw mud on the posters of Mussolini. An Italian writes Viva England, Viva USA and USSR on a wall. An animated map shows Allied attack on the German positions in Italy. General Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces and British Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander in Chief of the Allied Naval Forces in the Mediterranean. Surrendered Italian fleet of ships underway toward Allied controlled ports. From Washington DC U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces (armistice) surrender of Italy.
United States 7th Army troops advance through Sicilian villages. 7th Army troops on streets. Houses in the background. Wounded U.S. soldiers loaded on planes for evacuation. Aircrafts in flight. (World War II period).
U.S. troops aboard deck of LST (Landing Craft, Tank). LST underway at sea. Ships of invasion force underway. LC (Landing Craft) underway at sea. Pontoon section launched from side of LST. PC (Patrol Craft) underway. Other LC (Landing Craft) and auxiliary ships in the background. Pontoon section alongside LST. Soldiers on deck of the ship close ashore. (World War II period).