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Crash in Sicily.
Flying Fortresses take part in bombing raid over Marsala and Palermo. A B17 returns home with damaged tail and makes crash landing. Venturas of the RAF head out over the Channel for France. Their target is...
Aerial bombing shots from American B17s over Sicily.
Weapons containers being packed and loaded into planes. Men of the Airborne Division (being the first to set foot on the Island) are briefed and then with men of the American paratroops are seen putting on...
Troopships at sea, showing various activities on board the ships. Religious service on board one of the ships shows General Simmonds among the congregation. Convoy at sea in fairly choppy water. Dawn and the...
Allied shipping undergoes air attack off the Sicily coast. The invading 8th Army start to move inland from Siracuse. In Rosolino an Italian surrenders and the troops are given wine. Evacuees return home....
Spitfires taking off from Malta and patrolling the skies over the invasion fleet. In Sicily at Comiso airfield the RAF take-over after a German squadron had vacated it. Now switching from air forces to land...
Canadian troops prior to the invasion of Sicily rehearse landings. US paratroops take part in pre-invasion drop over the training ground.
8th Army nearing Catania. On the outskirts of Enna some opposition from Italian snipers. Food is handed out to the civilian population of Floridia. Sherman tanks rumble through the old streets of...
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