Motion Picture MP2016-14
Administrative Information
News film compilation of World War II footage from approximately July-August, 1943 (Castle Films # 145), depicting the activities leading up to, including, and after the Sicilian campaign in Italy.
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Shot List
Intertitles are as follows:
-Bombs Rock Italy!
-British “Lancasters” take off at dusk headed for the Italian mainland!
-Target for tonight is Genoa – vital seaport!
-Allied bombs burst amidst a chandelier of flares!
-Gen. Jimmy Doolittle gives his pilots last minute instructions!
-On to Rome – a blow that shakes all Europe! [probably July 19, 1943]
-Railroad yards are smashed to tangled wreckage!
-Victory in Sicily!
-Under cover of big guns, troopships approach Sicily!
-American assault troops!
-Allied troops swarm across the sands of Sicily! [probably July 10, 1943]
-Lieut. Gen. (Two-gun) [George] Patton goes ashore to direct the drive!
-Canadians land!
-Tons of supplies reach the beach-head!
-Maj. Gen. [Lucian] Truscott
-Heavy Allied artillery goes into action
-Thousands of Italian soldiers pay the fatal toll!
-Near Catania, British advance after taking Siracusa!
-The “Tommies” under Gen. [Bernard] Montgomery push on!
-Italian soldiers give up in droves!
-Highlanders move up, pressing toward Mt. Etna!
-An officer-prisoner gets stubborn!
-[Hermann] Goering’s Division is captured!
-Sicilian Cities are pulverized!
-Americans, Britishers, and Canadians, tired but joyful, hail Victory in Sicily!
This News Parade newsreel was produced by Castle Films and edited by Eugene W. Castle.