The Drive for Messina 10 July - 17 August 1943: British troops pass bomb damaged buildings in Syracuse. The port had fallen to the British on 10 July.

The British are coming

A Sherman tank of the British 23rd Armoured Brigade coming ashore from a landing craft at Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944.

Out of landing craft

British Infantrymen in position in a shallow trench near Bardia, a Libyan Port, which had been occupied by Italian forces, and fell to the Allies on January 5, 1941, after a 20-day siege. 