Under heavy enemy fire in Nuernberg, 3rd Infantry Division soldiers cautiously advancing behind a tank on April 19, 1945.

Behind a tank

A U.S. soldier north of the Volturno river disables a mine, which has been discovered by the engineer holding his metal detector. “All roads lead to Rome,” quipped General Harold Alexander, the commander-in-chief of Allied forces in Italy, “but all the roads are mined.”


Mine clearing

As everyone pitches in to help out, cans of gasoline bound for Patton's gas-hungry Third Army are unloaded from a C-47 by Air Evacuation Nurse Irene Steffens. Airlifts brought in up to 12,000 gallons a day, a mere trickle in comparison to the 450,000 gallons that Patton required.