U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group attack ground targets in Sicily during World War II. A-36 aircraft in flight over hilly terrain of Sicily. Italian pillbox and fortifications, along the Gela-Butera road, being targeted by A-36 aircraft. They fly several sorties against the targets. Targets being struck. Some explose and burn. Black smoke billows up from one burning pillbox. A-36 bombs fortifications along a mountain side.
U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group in Sicily during World War II. Flight line of A-36s on an airfield in Sicily. A-36s taxis. Formation of A-36s over clouds. A-36s dive. Five A-36s in flight and clouds in the background. Aerial view of countryside.
Messina railway station and port in Sicily after bombings done by U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. Damage caused to harbor area with debris outside a building. A painting shows Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Interiors of a building. Bombed building and harbor facilities. U.S. soldier stands next to Nazi German NSV sign (National Socialist People's Welfare Organization) identifying a service station. He looks at a booklet, perhaps to translate the sign (bahnhofsdienst). More views of destruction from the bombing.
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.
Japanese school boys at work in Omura, Japan. Boys' Grammar School shows the boys marching to work with precision, carrying their shovels on their shoulders. They tear down the school air raid shelter. The boys march again and repeat the action.
U.S. soldiers work on a U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader aircraft in Gela, Sicily, Italy during World War II. Two U.S. soldiers work on the engine of an A-36 Invader aircraft parked on an airfield. Two soldiers take a bomb off a truck and roll it over to other soldier who installs fins. The soldiers load bombs on the A-36. The soldiers fuel the aircraft. A maintenance crew works on the aircraft. The bomb is loaded under the wing of the A-36.
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