An American cargo ship explodes during the Allied invasion of Sicily, 1943

ID: 251 ~ Source: The Atlantic ~ Creator: Associated Press
This file appears in: Mission to Sicily

ID: A cloud of smoke emerging from a body of water with a port in the foreground.

This file appears in: Mission to Sicily

By Guy Gunter
"Then they came up with the mission to Sicily. And 36, well more than that, volunteered to fly as copilot with the British into Sicily, which we did. Out of the 36, 16 of us got back. And the reason for that is, the American tow pilots went into…