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WWII - 1943, Italy: Sicily Invasion & Unloading Equipment, Prisoners, Jul43

Reel Number: H1683-16

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1943,

Country: Italy,USA

Location: Sicily

TC Begins: 11:18:02

TC Ends: 11:24:44

Duration: 00:06:42

WWII - 1943, Italy: Sicily Invasion & Unloading Equipment, Prisoners, Jul43 Invasion fleet ships in rough seas 11:18:42 Ship thru calm seas; LS of landing craft & other small ships; pan shoreline, landing craft offshore; beached. High angle of soldiers wading ashore to sandy beach carrying rifles w/ bayonets thru waist-deep water. 11:20:14 LST in convoy column; other ships underway. 11:20:37 High angle DUKW ashore, beached landing craft along sandy beach. DUKW inland on sandy road. 11:21:13 Elderly couple walking past waving. 11:21:16 View on board of special landing barge in heavy sea; men on deck. Sides dropped & released to form pontoon for off-loading equipment. Men prepare vehicles to unload. 11:22:14 Jeep along wet sand past beached landing craft. 11:22:25 Planes overhead; LST unloading trucks & half-tracks onto temporary wharf. Trucks w/ slogans above windshields: Now Adolph Count Your Children; Demons From Hell. Ambulance onto sand; supplies, anti-aircraft guns, field kitchen. Soldier shaving from helmet on sand dunes; others rest by windbreak. 11:24:23 Wounded German & Italian prisoners of war / POW w/ tags out of reeds & across sand WW2 Invasion;

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