Allies Head Towards Sicily, July, 1943
Anti-aircraft tracers over the harbour of Alexandria,
Egypt, as seen by Ian Mair, before sailing for Sicily in July, 1943.
Photo credit - Ian Mair, at The Memory Project
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 - Allied Soldiers get onto landing crafts
Synopsis:
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Allied warships underway in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Sicily. Explosions occur in the background on the coast. Soldiers come down a landing net onto a landing craft. Soldiers loaded onto a landing craft as it pulls away. Landing crafts head for the beach. U.S. Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton looks through a pair of binoculars towards the shore.
Location: Sicily, Italy
Date: 1943, July
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Another link to Critical Past - Pontoon Causeway, Unloading Ammunition
Synopsis:
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Three landing crafts in surf. The landing crafts approach the shore. U.S. troops get off a landing craft. Allied soldiers at a beach as they unload ammunition cases from a landing craft. The soldiers dig emplacements on the beach. Equipment and vehicles on the beach. An American flag planted in the sand. Soldiers come onto the shore from a pontoon causeway. The pontoon causeway leading to an LST (Landing Ship Tank). Soldiers walk along the causeway and come onto the beach at Gela. Some vehicles on the causeway.
Location: Sicily, Italy
Date: 1943, July
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Please link to Video: Allied Equipment Unloaded in Sicily, 1943
Sound: No
Another link to Critical Past - Pontoon Causeway, Unloading Ammunition
Synopsis:
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Three landing crafts in surf. The landing crafts approach the shore. U.S. troops get off a landing craft. Allied soldiers at a beach as they unload ammunition cases from a landing craft. The soldiers dig emplacements on the beach. Equipment and vehicles on the beach. An American flag planted in the sand. Soldiers come onto the shore from a pontoon causeway. The pontoon causeway leading to an LST (Landing Ship Tank). Soldiers walk along the causeway and come onto the beach at Gela. Some vehicles on the causeway.
Location: Sicily, Italy
Date: 1943, July
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Please link to Video: Allied Equipment Unloaded in Sicily, 1943
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