Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen (left) commander of the 1st Infantry Division, studies a map with Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, commander of the U.S. II Corps. Censors have inked out a landmark between the two to avoid pinpointing their location in Sicily.


Generals

Dead and dying Italian soldiers lie in a road near Palermo in July 1943, after their truck inadvertently hit an Italian mine while being pursued by U.S. troops. Near a jeep in the background, medics dress the wounds of an American lieutenant.


The dead, the dying and the medics

American troops, somewhere among the ruins in northwestern France, summer 1944. 




