Pair of British paratroopers walking through smoking rubble of Gessapolini during the drive through Italy.1944(rudeerude)

British paratroopers

Conferring outside camouflaged mobile HQ are (L-R) British Generals Harold Alexander, 8th Army Cmdr., Bernard Montgomery & Alan Brooke (w. berets) as well as unident. staff officer & Lt. Gen. Freiberg of an attached New Zealand Div., somewhere in the Ortona sector during the Allied drive through Italy.

Montgomery somewhere in the Ortona

Knife wielding Gurkha soldier emerging from a foxhole while serving in a unit attached to the British 8th Army somewhere in the Ortona sector during the Allied push to oust German troops from Italy.(rudeerude)