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. An Allied soldier talks to a wounded lying on a stretcher in Palermo. Wounded soldiers on litters lying side by side along a wall. A nurse attends to a wounded soldier. Soldiers lined up as they get their identification checked by an officer when they move out of a hospital building. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar Bradley confers with Major General J. Lawton Collins. Later they are seen seated at a table under a tree discussing plans. A wrecked German Tiger tank of 2./s.Pz.Abt.504 (504th Heavy Tank Battalion) outside 49, Corso Indipendenza, Acate, Sicily.
Damage caused by Allied bombings in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II. A damaged lighthouse with a harbor in the background. Sailors repair a hole in the hull of a U.S. Navy destroyer escort ship in the harbor. Men on the dock lower a wooden cover to the hole.
Allied bombing of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Aerial view of a target area. Bombs are released by U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft over Gerbini Aerodrome. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from the coast of Sicily just before the invasion by American troops. Explosions occur on a beach as aircraft drop 500 and 1000 pound bombs. U.S. support boats with beach barrage rockets head towards the coast of Sicily. Troops aboard the support boats as they head for the coast. Mountains in the background.
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