The role of U.S. 86th Fighter Bomber Group during Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy in World War II. Rubble spread on an airfield after aerial bombing by the 86th Fighter Group. A soldier gets on a damaged aircraft. A soldier gets onto a damaged Italian Macchi MC 202 aircraft. An insignia on the side of the aircraft. A soldier removes cartridges from the aircraft.
Film opens with Allied soldiers looking at an Fw 190A-5 of SchlG 2. (Schlachtgeschwader 2) Immelmann, a Luftwaffe Dive bomber-wing.The Gruppe insignia, of Mickey Mouse riding a bomb and brandishing an axe, is displayed on both sides of the plane, near the engine cowling. Inside a hangar, a Ju-88 bomber is seen with left wing elevator missing as well as other parts. Camera shifts to another Ju-88 sitting nearby. Scene shifts to two soldiers, in shorts and knee socks (British?) standing partially under a wrecked German plane. Some bombs sit on the ground under the plane. They watch as an American soldier digs on the side of a bomb, with a large knife, apparently trying to remove something as a souvenir. Next, a soldier in shorts is seen descending from the Ju-88, onto a maintenance stand underneath it. He walks toward the camera holding his hand up (almost as if to ask the cameraman not to photograph him). Scene shifts to beneath a Junkers Ju-52 transport plane, with "Kaltstart,"stenciled on its fuselage. The American soldier, with the big knife, digs on the bottom of the plane, as if to collect a souvenir, again.
The role of U.S. 86th Fighter Bomber Group during Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy in World War II. Men use shovel to clear rubble after an air raid by the 86th Fighter Group. Damaged buildings along a street. The men remove rubble. A sign on a building reads 'DUCE'. Debris on a street. A view of a beach and the surrounding area.
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.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Allied soldiers at a beach and a partially sunken ship in the background. Wreckage on the beach. A wrecked steel frame structure of an aircraft at the beach. Allied soldiers examine the structure. Two boys get in the cockpit of the aircraft and try to pose as pilots. A boy jumps into the sea. The boys swim in water.
View from below of American soldiers atop an Italian artillery blockhouse, at Cape Rasocolmo, Sicily, Italy during World War 2. A tall radio antenna extends above the structure. View from the blockhouse as U.S. soldiers lower and fold up a flag of the Kingdom of Italy. The Mediterrean Sea in background. A soldier climbs atop a tracked vehicle on which a large steel drum is mounted (apparently a large searchlight). They rotate light and one soldier attempts (successfully) to move move it by hand.
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