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.
General George Patton is welcomed at Palermo in Sicily and meets with Catholic Church Cardinal Lavitrano. Army Engineers construct mountain highways. The crew is seen working and using dynamite charges in mountain side to more quickly build a road bed for advancing supplies. Road building machinery at work. Bridges are constructed. Captured Italian soldiers and Italian officers are marched as prisoners of war in Sicily.
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).
Shore line of Sicily. LC (Landing Craft) on shore. Allied troops wade ashore upon landing during invasion of Sicily during World War II. Troops drive Jeep on beach.
Beachhead activities after Allied troops land on Sicily. Soldier shaves on beach following invasion. 20 MM gun crew on alert. Soldiers cook at captured German mess kitchen. Old man and woman on beach. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) and pontoon causeways close shore. DUKW (six wheel drive amphibious truck) run up on beach and drive along shore. (World War II period).
Ruins of Sicily after Allied bombings done by U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. U.S. flags fly from ships in harbor. Bulldozer clears the bombed area. Rubble on street. Damaged buildings. Damaged ships in the harbor. Wrecked plane. Blast in a building.