Allied soldiers, ammunition and vehicles are unloaded at a beach in Sicily, Italy...HD Stock Footage

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Allied soldiers, ammunition and vehicles are unloaded at a beach in Sicily, Italy during World War II.

Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Three landing crafts in surf. The landing crafts approach the shore. US 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: July 1943.

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