Video: Canadian Troops in Sicily, WW2

Canadians in Sicily During World War II

Highlanders assist with the unloading, while the beach group

engineer prepare roads off the beach. Photo credit - Wikipedia

Introduction: The website 'Critical Past' has an extensive collection of videos and still images, and many concern significant events during WW2 in which Canadians in Combined Operations were involved. A price tag is attached to high-resolution videos and stock images but one can find access to the same material in low-resolution video but with the website's title displayed in the centre.

Please note: The above photo and the video (link) presented may not be concerned with the same troops at the same location.

Link to Critical Past posted on YouTube - Canadians in Sicily, WW2

Link to Critical Past - Canadians in Sicily During World War II

Synopsis - Canadian troops in Sicily, Italy during World War II. Landing crafts at a beach. Ships in the background. A naval control tower at the coast as a naval officer looks through binoculars and directs beach operations. Trucks along the beach. A truck backs into an LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized). Canadian mule troops embark onto a landing craft. View of a coast as seen from a landing craft leaving for another Italian coast. View of the Italian coast as seen from the landing craft. Artillery being fired to support landing operations. Smoke rises due to artillery fire.

Location: Sicily Italy
Date: 1943, September
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No

Please link to Video: British Troops at Marzamemi, Sicily