(NA 4252) The Captain of LST 367, a landing craft loaded with tanks, briefs his crew before sailing to Sicily. The use of LCTs (Landing Craft Tanks) and LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) during the invasion, enabled armour to be landed with the assaulting infantry for the first time.
(NA 4262): A Sherman tank leaves a landing ship.
(NA 4139): A survivor of the airborne invasion, Lance Corporal Blaycock, boards a Royal Navy warship after being rescued from the sea. His glider landed in the sea after being blown off course and he was picked up after spending seven hours afloat.
(NA 4343): Civilians from Avola passing our advance troops, one woman is waving a ‘white flag’ while the woman following her given a Fascist salute.
(NA 4354): General view as landing craft unload.
(NA 4323): Types of landing craft used during the operations.
(NA 4506): Landing craft putting the stores and personnel ashore.
(NA 4513): British troops go ashore from an infantry landing ship.
(NA 4336): A patrol from 107 Anti-Tank Battery returning from the Avola area at dawn.
(NA 4357): British troops marching into Avola.
(NA 4218): Beach scene in Southern Sicily as the landing operations continued unhindered.
(NA 4233): A British soldier inspects a captured Italian pillbox in the Pachino area.
(NA 4244): Scene on the beaches of Sicily showing LCIs and LCTs unloading.
(NA 4573): Infantry coming ashore from a landing craft.
(NA 4338): Men of the 9th Bn. D.L.I. ‘digging in’ after HQ had been established.
(NA 4630): Troops coming ashore from a landing craft.
(NA 4630): Troops coming ashore from a landing craft.
(NA 4183): A British Universal Carrier Mark I comes ashore during the invasion of Sicily.
(NA 4635): General view of one of the invasion beaches, with Italian prisoners being made to remove barbed-wire in the foreground.
(NA 4105): A British soldier reads up on Sicily, the target for the next Allied invasion.
(NA 4270): Troops cheering General Montgomery after he had addressed them at a camp in Malta.
(A 17959) Troops dashing ashore from landing craft.
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(NA 4411): British troops advance through Pachino during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
(NA 4275) Troops wade ashore from landing ships.
(NA 4207): Self-propelled ‘Priests’ the gun that surprised the Axis Armies in North Africa, coming ashore from the landing craft.
(NA 4510): The first batch of Italian prisoners arriving at the beach for interrogation.
(NA 4234): Tommies get their first view of Sicily from the bows of a landing craft.
(NA 4272): Officers of the 5th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders. Left to right – front row:- Lieut. T.H. Bremner, Lieut. J. Dent Lieut. A.D. Cochrane Lieut. J.A. Latta Lieut A.C. McLeish Left to right – 2nd Row Lieut G.A.D. Inches Lieut K. Robertson Capt. J. Roberts Major G.L. Andrews, Lieut. Col. J.H.Walford, DSO (CO)., Major G. Green, Capt. D. Findley Shirras, Lieut J.G. Angus.
(NA 4216): British troops embarking on L.C.Is at Sousse.
