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Invasion Of Gela, Sicily, 03/1943 - 07/1943
About this film
Naval Photographic Center film #15678. National Archives description "1) LS Transports underway.2) LS SS ROBERT ROWAN exploding; large column of smoke exploding.3) LS Ship burning; people in FG watching. SV4) MS Group of Coast Guard men playing musical instruments aboard ship.5) CU Trumpet player and piano player. SV6) CU Hands of piano player.7) MCU Drum player.8) LA CU Bass violin player.9) CU Banjo or guitar player.10) CU Head and shoulders of trumpet and clarinet players.11) MS Sailors reading on decks of ship.12) MS Officers and chiefs leaning against life lines looking out to sea; troop transport underway in BG.13) LS Troop transport underway.14) MCU Chief making drawing.15) CU Chief"s hands making drawing.16) MCU Sailor taking canvas off 20mm gun.17) MS Three men manning 20mm gun.18) LA LS PBM airborne. NG19) MLS LST coming onto beach with personnel, trucks and vehicles aboards man"s head in FG; land in BG.20) HA MS Officer briefing Coast Guard personnel. SV21) LS Line of transport ships underway; barrage balloons overhead.22) MS Sherman tank underway.23) MCU Sherman tank underway. SV24) MS Half-tracks underway on the beach.25) LS Battleship underway; LCI"s underway in FG. S…
Directors & creators
United States. Navy
Subjects
WWII, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy, United States. Navy, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Coast Guard, Landing Craft -- United States, SS Robert Rowan, Motor Vehicles, Amphibious -- United States, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy -- Sicily, United States. Army, Barrage Balloons, Mariner Bombers
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