German gliders in Sicily, Italy during World War II. Landing gears on a German glider are released when it leaves the ground. A DF S-230 glider takes off. Mountains in the background. A Gotha-242 glider in flight. The DFS-230 glider comes in for a landing. The glider lands and a German flight crew gets off the glider. German soldiers push motorcycles through sand. The Gotha-242 glider makes a landing . German troops open the glider to unload supplies.
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.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Allied warships underway in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Sicily. Explosions occur in the background on the coast. Soldiers come down a landing net onto a landing craft. Soldiers loaded onto a landing craft as it pulls away. Landing crafts head for the beach. U.S. Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton looks through a pair of binoculars towards the shore.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Three landing crafts in surf. The landing crafts approach the shore. U.S. troops get off a landing craft. Allied soldiers at a beach as they unload ammunition cases from a landing craft. The soldiers dig emplacements on the beach. Equipment and vehicles on the beach. An American flag planted in the sand. Soldiers come onto the shore from a pontoon causeway. The pontoon causeway leading to an LST (Landing Ship Tank). Soldiers walk along the causeway and come onto the beach at Gela. Some vehicles on the causeway.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. U.S. Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Commander of the U.S. Seventh Army, along with a soldier aboard a troop ship. Soldiers mark a sheet. Lt. Gen. Patton with a cigar in his mouth as he goes over the side of the ship. He climbs down a rope net into a landing craft. Lt. Gen. Patton seated aboard the landing craft, accompanied by several armed soldiers and officers, including a Brigadier General, as it approaches a beach in the Gulf of Gela, South-Central Sicily. A captain and soldier help Lt. General Patton to get off the landing craft. Patton and officers, including the Brigadier General who accompanied him on the landing craft, stand together on the beach. Patton and the Brigadier General both wear 1st Armored Division patches on their uniforms. General Patton stands watching as army vehicles including trucks,halftracks,jeeps, and heavy armor, offload from Landing ships. Officers and soldiers on the beach take temporary cover as explosions occur close offshore, from enemy artillery fire.
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