CONVOY EN ROUTE, INVASION LICATA, SICILY Part 2

Description

1) MLS Ship's boat from USS BUCK (DD-761) rescuing a downed Air Force pilot.2) HA CU Crew members tending to pilot wrapped in blankets, in the small boat, as it is hoisted aboard the BUCK (SV).3) HA MCU Crew members helping pilot from boat onto the ship.4) CU Pilot talking with his rescuers and officers on the ship (SV).5) LS Large fire at ammunition dump on Licata coastline (SV).6) LS Group of LST's underway at sea (SV).7) MS Signalman sending blinker signals, LST's underway in BG.8) LS LST's off shoreline of Licata (very hazy) (SV).9) LS Three AP's off beach of Licata, barrage balloons hovering overhead (SV).10) HA MS Troops on deck of an LST.11) MS Italians helping to unload boxes of provisions and gear from a ship and to load them onto a truck.12) MS to LS Cargo net coming down side of ship loaded with cargo.13) MS Large stacks of supplies loaded onto trucks; Italians in BG.14) MCU Large stacks of field rations; PAN to Italians and American sailors loading rations onto trucks.15) LS Cruiser firing (hazy)16) LS Small boats around an AK at anchor; look t on bridge of camera ship in FG.17) MCU Group of Italians unloading crates of rations from a truck and putting them on a conveyor; American troops watching in BG.18) LS Large fires, explosions, on shoreline of Licata (SV).(FORMERLY 1085) PROD. BY US NAVY (CPU-5) CONVOY UPS ANCHOR, EN ROUTE INVASION SICILY19) HA MS Two persons washing down anchor chain aboard DD.20) MCU Crew members watching as the anchor chain comes aboard.21) LA MS Skipper on the DD's bridge; part of a 5" gun in FG.22) MLS PAN Pan past a YN (net tender) in the harbor and back to deck of the DD underway.23) LA LS Navy Blimp in flight overhead.24) MLS Unidt. Cruiser at anchor in harbor; PAN down length of Cruiser; three DD's tied up alongside each other in FG.25) LS Various types ships in the harbor.26) LS DD's tied up alongside each other, pier in BG.27) HA MS DD underway; crew members running to quarters to GQ, torpedo firing tubes being manned.28) LS Several ships underway at sea.29) MS Bow of DD cutting thru the water.30) LS Various ships in convoy.31) MLS DD underway, bow view.32) LS Various ships underway in the convoy (SV).33) MCU Enl'd man on deck of DD with a small dog mascot; dog is wearing a life preserver.34) CU Mascot wearing the life preserver.35) LS Ships of convoy underway (SV).36) LS DE underway dropping depth charges; large underwater explosions off stern of ship.37) ELS Convoy underway on the horizon.38) HA MS Looking straight down on the bow of ship as it cuts thru the water.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities