Gaumont British Ident

SLATE INFORMATION: Advancing on Catania: Harder Going as the Armies Push North in Sicily

ITALY: Sicily: Various:
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AERODROMES Roller making runaway in Sicily


BATHING Br: troops bathing & washing clothes in Sicily


BRIDGES. Primsola Bridge captured in Sicily


CORN Burning cornfield in Sicily


DOGS. On Brit. tank Sicily C.U.


FASCIST. In Civ. clothes rounded up & taken away in lorries Sicily


FIRES. Burning cornfield in Sicily


GERMAN MILITARY Wrecked tanks & planes in Sicily


GUNS. PRIEST guns shell Lentini in Sicily.


ITALY MILITARY Livorno Division captured in Sicily


MAP. Relief of Sicily showing CATANIA


NURSES. Italian Red X nurse helps in Sicily


PRISONERS OF WAR Italian Livorno Division captured in Sicily


RED CROSS. Italian Red X nurse helps in Sicily


SICILY ADVANCE OF CATANIA..Map..wrecked Ger. Tank & plane..food distribution. at VIZZINI..PRIEST guns shell LENTINI tanks advance to PALAGONIA Y'slavs. clear ruins IT. Livorno div. captured..street fighting & burning corn-field..PRIMSOLA bridge capd..Tommies bathe in stream..Fascist round up Churchill poster C.U. Churchill (Lib.)


STREET FIGHTING. Allies mop up Ger & It.soldiers in Sicily


Military - Active

Battle of the Catania Plain, Luftwaffe, Allies, soldiers, World War Two, World War II, WWII, Second World War, war, army
Background: A map illustrates the advance to Catania, images of battle aftermath abound, guns are fired in Lentini, Yugoslav men work among the wreckage, soldiers distribute food to hungry Sicilians, Italian prisoners are searched, fighting carries on in the streets of a small village, the Primsola Bridge is captured from German paratroopers before they can blow it up, a corn field burns, medics assist the wounded, and soldiers splash and bathe in a stream