Yellow Beach where Sidney Heistein and Company B landed. Audie Murphy was disappointed because due to a navigation mix up by the landing craft pilots, Company B's landing was delayed until well after the initial assault. As they would later learn, there was enough enemy opposition to go around. After Palermo, Company B turned east following the north coast road to Messina. Enemy opposition became more intense and many vicious battles such as the San Fratello Ridge would have to be won before Sicily was taken.
	A German pill box still guards the high ground above Yellow Beach.
	Italian bunkers north of Blue Beach. Italian-made bunkers were round, German bunkers were rectangular. Each had to be taken by infantrymen alternately pouring cover fire through the slits and inching forward to grenade range. Armour and artillery proved no match for such positions, they were silenced by the individual effort of a man wearing no more protection than a olive-drab fatigue shirt.
	The town of Gela, center of the First Infantry Division landing - and the German counterattack the next day.
	Driving north on Highway 117 - the axis of the powerful German counterattack of 11 July. This ancient castle in the foothills of Monte Della Guardia witnessed German tanks rumbling south from Niscemi in an all-out effort to drive the "Big Red One" into the sea.
	On the route of the Gela counterattack, a monument to fallen Italian soldiers. By the time of the Sicily invasion, Italians had lost faith in the Third Reich, lost faith in Il Duce and had lost many soldiers and civilians. Two months later, Italy surrendered and a month after that, declared war on Germany. Italian soldiers and civilians continued to be killed in the Italian campaign - Allied assaults against the German Army lasted right up to VE Day.