Invasion of Sicily and Italy's Surrender Photographs

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82nd Airborne load a 75mm howitzer into a CG-4A Troop Glider during training at Oujda, French Morocco, North Africa a month before the Sicily invasion, Jun 11 1943.	Allied Forces come ashore during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943. Note the Universal Carrier.	US Army DUKW loaded with oil drums coming ashore at Gela, Sicily, Italy, Jul 1943	Wounded Italian soldiers from the Sicily invasion being transferred from a ship to waiting WC54 ambulances at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, July 1943

Lieutenant General Omar Bradley aboard USS Ancon, off Scoglitti, Sicily, Italy, Jul 1943	Rear Admiral Alan Kirk aboard USS Ancon, off Scoglitti, Sicily, Italy, Jul 1943	Troop transport USS Susan B. Anthony (converted luxury liner) in Mers-el-Kebir, Oran, Algeria preparing for the invasion of Sicily, 5 Jul 1943. Note LCVP landing craft hanging from her davits and stowed on her foredeck.	M4 Sherman tanks being loaded onto LSTs for Operation Husky, Pêcherie, Bizerte, Tunisia, 7 Jul 1943

American troops landing on Sicily, 10 Jul 1943	Crew of M4 Sherman tank 'Eternity' checking the tank after landing at Red Beach 2, Sicily, 10 Jul 1943	George Patton at a beach in Sicily, Italy, 10 Jul 1943	Landing scene on Red Beach at Gela, Sicily, 10 Jul 1943; note LCI(L)-220 at left, a LCM from USS Bellatrix, two LCVPs, and a jeep

LCVP landing craft suspended from a transport's davits, off the Gela invasion beaches, 10 Jul 1943; note LCM of APA Oberon in background	LCVPs from APAs Barnett and Monrovia unloaded supplies onto the beach near Gela, Sicly, 10 Jul 1943; note LST-344 and LST-338 in background	LST-4 off the beaches of Gela, Sicily, 10 Jul 1943. Note the LCVPs suspended from her davits and note the LCVP’s peculiar spoonbill bow that was so instrumental to the boat’s success.	Men of the British Highland Division unloading stores on a landing beach on the opening day of the invasion of Sicily, 10 Jul 1943

American transport SS Robert Rowan exploding after being hit by German Ju 88 bombers, Gela, Sicily, at about 1550 to 1555 hours on 11 Jul 1943	George Patton in Gela, Sicily, Italy, mid-Jul 1943	US Army Private George Katere, Private First Class William Mosa, and Private First Class Jessie Hampton posing with Sicilian civilians, Italy, 11 Jul 1943	USS Boise firing on armor forces near Gela, Sicily, Italy as LST-325, full of US Army trucks, approached the landing beaches, 11 Jul 1943