A homeless orphan until "adopted" by the GIs, this Italian youngster proudly wears his new outfit of modified Army issue as he directs traffic through the town of San Vittore, Italy (Anzio front) in his new job - honorary MP.

Honorary MP

Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr. (right), commander of the U.S. Seventh Army, at the Royal Palace in Palermo with his rival, General Bernard L. Montgomery (center), commander of the British Eighth Army, and Major General Geoffrey Keyes, Patton’s deputy.


Commanders

While his playmates giggle at his discomfort, an Italian street urchin named Charleto stands amid artillery ammunition in Anzio, Italy and stoically allowes an American soldier to bandage his cut finger.