Lors de l'opération Husky , des troupes ont été débarqués sur 3 zones ( en plus de cela la 82nd Airborne fut larguée plus dans les terres ) , 3 Divisions ont été choisie pour le premier assaut ,
l'une d'elle avais pour but de capturer la ville de Gela .
A cette mission ce fut la Big Red One qui fut choisie .
Voici une série de clichés de l'opération .
Photographe : Bob Landry
Beach scene in the Sicilian port town of Gela following a successful attack by American forces to take the area.
American infantrymen ascending hill in the background (right of center, just above treeline) towards strongly defended Italian pillbox during battlet to take the Sicilian port town of Gela & surrounding area.
Smoke rising from Allied ship hit during a German bombing raid attempting to stem the flow of men & materials for American assault on Gela.
Scene in the Sicilian port town of Gela following a successful attack by American forces to take the area.
Local citizens leaving unident. building in the Sicilian port town of Gela following a successful attack by American forces to take the area.
Smoke rising from fields outside Gela during ferocious battle between American troops w. antitank guns, aided by naval bombardment, & German armored forces for control of the town & surrounding area.
Column of American infantry moving across a tomato grove towards the Sicilian port town of Gela during an Allied effort to take the area.
American troops in Gela move a captured Italian artillery piece into firing position while the fighting rages on just a mile away during an Allied effort to take the area.
Ruins of homes destroyed during the American attack on the town & surrounding area.
American soldiers surrounded by Italian civilians, mostly children, shortly after entering the town on heels of retreating Axis forces during the invasion of Sicily.
American soldiers laying flat in a town square which was deserted moments before, following an air raid warning signal.
American troops moving into the Sicilian port town of Gela during an Allied effort to take the area.
Scene in the Sicilian port town of Gela following a successful attack by American forces to take the area.
Gen. George S. Patton congratulating Lt. Col. William O. Darby after his Rangers helped American troops take the Sicilian port town of Gela.
Unconcerned Italian civilians pass American soldiers taking up defensive positions in near a Fascist monument in town plaza shortly after entering the town on heels of retreating Axis forces during the invasion of Sicily.
Smoke rising from camouflaged Italian pillbox into which a grenade has just been thrown during the battle to take the Sicilian port town of Gela.
American soldiers check an Italian billet for booby traps before converting it for their own use following a successful attempt to seize the town of Gela and surrounding area from Axis forces.
American troops moving into the Sicilian port town of Gela during an Allied effort to take the area.
American soldiers remove a Nazi flag from balcony of former National Fascist Party (P.N.F) HQ in the Sicilian port town of Gela during an Allied effort to take the area.
Local Gela resident welcoming American soldiers w. a pitcher of wine folllowing a successful attack by Allied forces to take the area from Axis hands.
American troops moving into the Sicilian port town of Gela during an Allied effort to take the area.
Italian prisoners of war, captured by American forces after an assault on the town of Gela.
American soldiers using a captured Italian billet for themselves following a successful attempt to seize the town of Gela and surrounding area from Axis forces.
Italian prisoners of war, captured by American forces after an assault on the town of Gela, being marched off to stockade.
American soldiers looking at body of an Italian soldier laying in a town square littered w. discarded equipment following a successful Allied effort to take the area.
American General George S. Patton enjoying a curbside smoke after the capture of Gela by US troops.
American troops with Sherman M4 tanks moving into the Sicilian port town of Gela during an Allied effort to take the area.
American troops occupying the Sicilian port town of Gela check out a captured gun while the fighting rages just a mile away during an Allied effort to take the area.
Italian prisoners wading out to board Allied landing craft, some carrying all their clothes, following American assault on town of Gela.