Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

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[avvidclif]

My grandfather was a Seabee in Okinawa during WWII, I have a little more respect then that.

My response was about submariners, not Seabees.

 

[Texasgordo]

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[DubiousDan]

During the invasion of Sicily, the Liberty ship Robert Rowan (K-40) has been hit by a German Ju 88 bomber and its cargo of munitions explodes off Gela, Sicily.

 

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US Sherman M4 tank lands during Operation Husky in Sicily in 1943

 

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A 5.5-inch gun was used by men in the 212nd Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, on 23 July, 1943.

 

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British troops in Pachine during the advance through Sicily.

 

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Italians wave an American flag as Allied troops walk past.

 

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Just after dawn men of the Highland Division are up to their waists in water unloading stores from landing craft tanks. Meanwhile beach roads are being prepared for heavy and light traffic during dawn of the opening day of the invasion of Sicily

 

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Troops wade ashore from landing ships as they landed in Sicily ready to take on the Axis powers of Italy and Nazi Germany.

 

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Royal Air Force Eagles getting ready for Operation Husky on Sicily.

 

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US troops make their way through the smoke to Fontainebleau, en route to Paris, during World War II as the allied forces make a bid to take Europe.

I don't know why this one was in with pics from Sicily.

 

[DubiousDan]

75th anniversary year of Operation Husky which took place in 1943.