# WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 118. \[AUG. 9\]

National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39187, LI 208-WP-118 - WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 118. \[AUG. 9\] - DVD Copied by Justin Grimes. Series: Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels, compiled 1943 - 1945. On the invasion of Sicily. A Brit. convoy, including transports, cruisers, destroyers, and other vessels, moves toward the island. Soldiers are transferred from ship to ship by breeches buoy. Troops bathe, repair shoes, and man battle stations. Transport planes, loaded with supplies and paratroops take off from a field in N. Africa. Allied troops land on Sicily under a naval barrage and regroup on the beach. Trucks and tanks are taken ashore.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1943
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: War, Education, News
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.39187)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.