Italy: Invasion of Sicily - ADC-1845

Summary

INVASION OF SICILY July 1943 Warships fire at Sicilian coast. (Black hairlines in first scene. ) Aboard transport as men go down landing net to landing craft; landing craft moves off. Lt Gen George S Patton scans the shore thru binocs. View from ship, three landing craft in the surf. LS from beach cf landing craft approaching the shore. MLS, American troops come off landing craft twd camera. Shots around the beach: soldiers unload ammo cases, men digging-in, equipment, vehicles on the beach, an American flag planted iz the sand. Soldiers step to the shore from a pontor causeway. LS, ponton causeway lead- ing to LST. LS, same, men walk along the causeway to the beach at Gela. HS, causeway looking twd the beach; some vehicles are on the causeway. MS, Gen Patton; a soldier to the R is marking a sheet. Patton, with a cigar in his mouth, goes over side of vessel and starts to descend. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 HS, Patton climbs down net into landing craft. At the shore the Gen is helped off the landing craft. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave. D LIC i, NY NF/lzw Signal Corps 111 ADC 1845 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (0 - 66) Card 2 of 2 1845-2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 756' Silent INVASION OF SICILY July 1943 (contd) Vehicles come of an LST; other landing craft at the beach. View of the beach with Patton and some other soldiers looking twd the water. Patton and an unidentified American Brig Gen as Patton talks to a soldier. LS, looking twd the water of ar LST close to the shore as enemy shells break around it. LS from the beach of LST burning from enemy bombing. MS, burning LST. LS, same traft almost enveloped by smoke. Wrecked landing craft near the shore. Wrecked German railroad guns. Views of the area around Licata harbor where the wrecked railroad guns are.