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Photograph MEA0487 Second World War, 1939-1945Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. The bomb damaged interior of the Messina Roman Catholic Cathedral showing rubble lying on the floor and roof missing.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. The German war memorial showing a statue of German soldiers standing on the monument.
Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. The bomb damaged interior of the Messina Roman Catholic Cathedral showing rubble lying on the floor and roof missing.

Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. Part of the town showing buildings undamaged by bomb blasts.

Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. The front exterior of the damaged Messina Roman Catholic Cathedral, to the left is the church tower showing a luna calendar clock and planetarium dial, just above the pla

Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. A luna calendar clock and planetarium dial on the Messina Roman Catholic Cathedral tower. Above the planetarium between the two windows is a ball shape representing the m

Agnone, Sicily, Italy. September 1943. The advance party of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, an all Australian squadron the Douglas C47 Dakota transport aircraft which is to take them across the Messi

Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. July 1943. The exterior of the War Memorial showing the windows in the building having been smashed.
