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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1683-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1943,1948
Country: Italy,USA
Location: messina,Palermo,Reitano,Sicily
TC Begins: 10:35:49
TC Ends: 10:41:54
Duration: 00:06:05
R3 of 3 LS burning building in Palermo, Sicily & fire & debris in harbor. Ambulance loaded w/ wounded on stretcher. Aerial across city & smoke screen over harbor. 10:36:13 Allied & Axis wounded evacuated to hospital ship in harbor. Seriously wounded loaded on C-47 ti be flown to North Africa. 10:36:37 Italian motorcycle corps riding past to POW point. 10:36:45 Generals Bradley, Lucas, Patton & Roosevelt (brief). Soldiers thru town & across hillside fields. Troops past Reitano sign. 10:37:06 Illustrated map showing line 10Aug43 from San Stefano across Troina to near Catania. 10:37:28 Aerial over Troina; artillery firing from below. Destroyed city, 06Aug43 w/ civilians leaving & troops entering. 10:38:03 Animated map. High angle above mountain road w/ vehicles towards San Fratello. Explosions; artillery loaded onto landing barges moved & re-landed on Messina peninsula. Observation planes & artillery firing. 10:39:04 Cliffside road destroyed by Germans Allied engineers rebuilding w/ planks. Troops advanece along road, thru town. 10:39:31 Destroyed & abandoned German equipment. 10:39:38 Captured German film of troop evacuation from Messina to mainland Italy. 10:40:10 US troops & jeeps entering wrecked city of Messina; Italian soldiers w/ large flags of surrender. Pan of harbor & wreckage. 10:40:35 Montage: CU sign A.M.G.O.T Civil Affairs Office. Meeting of Allied Military Government officers; MCU Colonel Poletti. Agents put up English & Italian posters re curfew & civilians reading. Weapons given up. Civilians clamoring for distributed rations, rationing. Hoarded wheat from bunker; medical care. Man pleading w/ officers at table. Bank re-opened, newspapers read. Rebuilding damaged buildings. 10:41:38 Pres. Roosevelt reviews Allied troops from a jeep. The End. Animated map; WW2; WWII; 1943; Jul43; Aug43;