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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220589-11
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1943,1940s
Country: Italy,USA
Location: Scauri, pantelleria, sicily
TC Begins: 16:48:50
TC Ends: 16:54:09
Duration: 00:05:19
WWII - 1943, US Troops Advance Into Sicily / Italy Pan over smoke being generated by smoke generators. AVs of generated smoke drifting inland from riverbank. Ground shot & CU of smoke generators working. Shots of river bridge towers and across river with heavy smoke rising from generators. Rear view helmeted US soldiers silhouetted in cave or hole in wall. Smoke rising. American troops advancing toward camera along road through village / town. Black American GIs w/ Italian prisoners of war, POWs, to rear. March across bridge over river as trucks & artillery pass toward front. Explosions on hillside. Tank past camera on dusty road. Wrecked tanks and military equipment on side of road. MCU & CU of damage & shell holes. Extreme destruction of multi-storied village along road. Infantry walking past ruins of buildings. 16:52:24 Young boy with rucksack looks at camera. Body lying under rubble. US troops move into ruined town w/ bulldozer. Remains of nearly destroyed church w/ bell in place. LS smoke over hillside village. Tank up dusty road from above, GI troops walking up road into town. Sign on wall Scauri town on island of Pantelleria near Sicily captured for use as base. Troops advancing through, checking buildings, resting. WW2; Italian Campaign; Operation Husky;