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WWII - 1943, Italy: Sicily Fighting & Activities; Generals Eisenhower, Alexander, Patton & Bradley

Reel Number: H1683-11

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1943,

Country: Italy,USA

Location: Erice,Palermo,Sicily

TC Begins: 10:55:08

TC Ends: 11:01:31

Duration: 00:06:23

WWII - 1943, Italy: Sicily Fighting & Activities; Generals Eisenhower, Alexander, Patton & Bradley Soldiers firing large artillery from under camouflage netting w/ mountains beyond. MCU reloading. 10:55:45 Men treating wounded. 10:56:02 Line of LSTs w/ doors open onto sandy beach, jeeps pulling trailers driving onto ships; larger vehicles backed into LST. 10:56:40 Heavily destroyed rural railroad yard, smoking wreckage beside small station. Soldiers walking thru wreckage of twisted rails & overturned burned out rail cars. 10:57:37 Damaged airplane fuselage & wings on railroad car; CU & MS. 10:58:08 Airplane fuselages on ground by concrete building w/ scorched burn marks & sign: Erice Napola. 10:58:21 Arriving General Eisenhower greeted by Gen. Patton as he exits C47. Sitting together in back of jeep. 10:58:49 Walking past troops w/ flags outside ??, saluting; entering building past MP. 10:59:05 MS Ike & Gen. Patton (w/o cap or helmet). 10:59:12 MS & MCU, two US three-star Generals (Patton & Bradley) & British officer Harold Alexander looking at map under trees on hillside. 10:59:39 Jeep past w/ Alexander, Patton & Bradley. Jeep w/ Ike, Alexander & ??. 10:59:58 Small tanker burning at dock in harbor; fire on dock alongside. 11:00:27 3 captured Italian officers in back of jeep. 11:00:36 LS of fire burning at night; twilight & anti-aircraft tracer fire in LS w/ harbor beyond. GOOD. 11:01:14 LS across city rooftops w/ large fires burning; cathedral dome & church spire in foreground; view in another direction w/ mountain in background. WW2;

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