Fifth Army engineers finish a bridge across a streambed in central Italy to replace the span destroyed by German demolitionists. In twenty months of fighting in Italy, the Allies would erect three thousand spans, with a combined length of fifty-five miles. This one took ten hours to build.


Army engineers

he first wave of Marines at Saipan, on the Marianas - summer of 1944.

 Marines at Saipan

An U.S. Army serviceman close the door of the General Mark Clark (Mark Wayne Clark), U.S. Fifth Army’s commanding general, personal aircraft, a Piper L-4 Grasshopper, Italy 1943. Clark is in the back seat while in the front seat is Major John Thornton Walker, at this time Clark’s personal pilot. Victor Sierra