U.S. Army military policemen toasting bread over molten lava from Vesuvius in Italy. The volcano’s spectacular eruption, which began on March 18, 1944, would be the last of the twentieth century.


Toast

Major General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., (left) commander of the U.S. VI Corps, and Lieutenant General Ira Eaker, the senior U.S. air commander in the Mediterranean, inspect sandbag-and-wine barrel fortifications around the Anzio airfield on April 6, 1944.


Wine barrel fortifications 

Major General Keyes (left) with Lieutenant General Clark and Brigadier General Robert T. Frederick (right), commander of the 1st Special Service Force, outside Rome in early June 1944.
