Lt. General Patton on the beach at Gela, July 10, 1943.
Gela was the first Italian beach reached by the Allies during the Invasion of Sicily
in July 1943, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, with the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, landed on the beaches during the initial assault on 9 July 1943.

On Italian soil

Lieutenant General Mark Clark of the U.S. 5th Army, aboard a military ship off the Italian coast, date uncertain; 1943-44.

Gen. Clark

3rd Armored Division tanks and "Blitz-doughs" of the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment eliminating a sniper hiding in Englebert's Tire Factory on rue de Fetinne in Liege, Belgium; 1944. 