Lieutenant General Mark Clark of the U.S. 5th Army, aboard a military ship off the Italian coast, date uncertain; 1943-44.

Gen. Clark

US infantrymen moving toward the small Italian town of Itri, in the foothills of the Aurunci mountains, about 75 miles (120Km) south of Rome; Mid-May, 1944.
 
 


It's a long way to Rome

Lt. General Patton on the beach at Gela, July 10, 1943.
Gela was the first Italian beach reached by the Allies during the Invasion of Sicily
in July 1943, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, with the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, landed on the beaches during the initial assault on 9 July 1943.