INVADERS EMBARK (FIRST PICTURES) In many hundred barges, Eighth Army veterans cross Strait...(1943)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Eighth Army veterans cross the Straits of Messina to Sicily. Full Description: ITALY: Sicily: San Giovanni: EXT GV pan transports and material on land. LTV pan up destroyers and barges and shipping etc. in harbour. CY soldier doing “V“ sign down quay steps. SBV soldiers approaching barges. Dawn shot destroyers and barges in Messina Straits. LV amphibious ducks with troops on Sicily beach waiting to go into water. CU amphibious duck barge into water. CUBV duck barge with troops into water. Semi Side View duck barge into water with troops. LBV duck barge into water showing line of ducks with troops in water. San Giovanni, Italy: LAV eight Baltimores flying over Sicily heading out to sea. CUTAV Baltimore in air flying from coast of Sicily to toe of Italy. CUAV three bombs dropping. AV bombs burst on ground. SAV Baltimore dropping three bombs. LAV bomb smoke rising from ta