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United States demolition crew soldiers demolish a wall to destroy a bypass in Sicily during WW2

United States soldiers move in columns into a town during the Invasion of Sicily in World War 2. United States soldiers pass by a nasone (Italian water fountain) while marching in Messina Sicily Italy. United States soldiers examine a map together. Soldiers, as a demolition crew, set up charge in brick wall that is blocking their way. Soldier inserts charge in brick wall hole. Soldiers evacuate before bypass explodes. Explosion and smoke from destruction of wall.

Location: Messina Sicily Italy
Date: 1943, August 17
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078716
Messina harbor in Sicily, Italy shows various bombed out buildings during World War II.

War damage around Messina harbor, Sicily, Italy, after bombings done by USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes during World War II. Damaged and abandoned Italian equipment near a damaged bridge. U.S. soldiers in a jeep drive past the damaged bridge. A drawing of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Interiors of a bombed out building. Damaged harbor facilities. A U.S. soldier stands near a sign which reads NSV (Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt) with a Swastika sign below it. The harbor area shows several bombed out buildings.

Location: Sicily Italy
Date: 1943, August
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061154
Destruction in city of Messina from U.S. Army Air Forces bombing in World War II

Destroyed trains in railroad marshaling yard at Messina, Sicily, resulting from U.S. Army Air Forces bombing during World War 2. Cracked, broken and destroyed buildings in the city of Messina. Shattered trees and debris-filled areas. Two armed provisional Italian police, wearing white armbands, walk past partially destroyed commercial buildings. They turn and walk toward the camera. Closeups of each, and of armband identifying them as Civil Police, written in English and Italian.

Location: Messina Sicily Italy
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060646
Views of Cape Rasocolmo, Sicily, Italy, after it falls to American forces during World War II

U.S. soldiers lower and fold up a flag of the Kingdom of Italy, from atop a tower overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, at Cape Rasocolmo, Sicily, Italy, 15 km from Messina, during World War 2. They examine a large searchlight mounted on a tracked vehicle. They rotate it. The American soldiers uncover a grass camouflaged listening device (used to locate planes before the invention of the radar). A U.S. Army Sergeant occupies the operator's position and checks its movement controls. Soldiers pull grass camouflaging another large piece of equipment related to artillery (perhaps a type of radar). Scene shifts to view from hills overlooking the waterfront with town and port facilities. An American soldier takes photographs of the scene. Sequence shifts to views from a boat (unseen) moving slowly in the water off the coast. Buildings seen perched on the hillside and summit. Unusually shaped rock formations in the water at base of the cliffs. View from hilltop, of farmland in valley below.

Location: Sicily Italy
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060639
Fighting in Italian mainland during the World War II and the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces Italy's surrender.

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.

Location: Sicily Italy
Date: 1943, September
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033557
Allied forces advancing through Messina, Sicily, Italy in World War II.

Allied soldiers in a jeep and a British personnel carrier, drive past huge letters, spelling "DUCE," painted on the side of a massive concrete wall in Messina, during World War 2. Change of scene shows American soldier examining an Italian Pavesi military tractor. He is very intested in its unusual wheels. Change of scene shows the soldier climbing into the seat of another Pavesi tractor and checking out its controls. A large building across the street displays a British flag. An American technical sergeant offers an Italian civil policeman a cigarette. A closeup of the policeman as he smokes. The sergeant points to "Heil Rommel" written on a door, and other graffiti in chalk on a wall. He pauses to examine some wrecked Italian vehicles. Closeup of the wreckage.

Location: Messina Sicily Italy
Date: 1943, August
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066884
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