Enemy fortifications in Sicily, Italy during World War II. An abandoned road. A hill overlooking the road. An Italian pillbox on the hill. A village street. Children run up the road.
Enemy fortifications in Sicily, Italy during World War II. An enemy fortification on a hill with an artillery piece inside it. A silhouetted gun in the foreground and a view of the surrounding area as seen from a pill box. The pillbox on a hill overlooking a beach.
Enemy fortifications in Sicily, Italy during World War II. A wrecked house used as a fortification by the Italians. Rubble in the foreground. An Italian sign on the building. Trucks move past the house. Another building with a sloping roof. An Allied soldier near the hut as he looks at a piece of a cane net.
Enemy fortifications in Sicily, Italy during World War II. Rows of trees on either side of a road as seen from a window. An Allied soldier opens and closes a window. An Italian sign on a wall above the window. A soldier opens the window. Exteriors of the fortifications. Another old building that served as an Italian fortification at the end of a road.
German aircraft in Sicily, Italy during World War II. A formation of German Junkers JU-52 aircraft fly over water. German paratroopers seated in JU-52s talk. The paratroopers jump from the aircraft. They descend and land. Trees and mountains in the background. German paratroopers jump from a Heinkel HE-111 aircraft. The paratroopers land. Supply parachutes land. German troops in a ground combat. German soldiers fire large artillery guns. Explosions occur.
Allied artillery and aircraft strike coast of Sicily, Italy during World War II. An Italian ship underway at sea off the cost of Sicily. Smoke rises from the coast as Allied aircraft bombard it. Italian MZ boats and ships in a harbor as they evacuate Axis troops. Explosions occur at sea due to Allied bombing.