Local residents welcome American troops arriving in the town of Monreale, on the outskirts of Palermo, northern Sicily, Italy; July 1943.

Welcome to the Americans...

American GIs rest after the battle - July 31 to August 6, 1943 -
 for the town of Troina, Sicily, Italy.

After the battle...

Soldiers of the U.S. 320th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, move on on a street of a German town of Kamp-Lintfort, past the body of a dead German soldier.
   Kamp-Lintfort is a town between the Dutch border and the German industrial city of Essen.
