Trio of British paratroopers manning observation post on Mt Maiella in the Ortona sector during the drive through Italy.

Observation post

British 8th Army officers in command of a Gurkha battalion in the Ortona sector pause for a group shot during a lull in the action on the drive through Italy.

British 8th Army officers

Conferring outside camouflaged mobile HQ are (L-R) British Generals Harold Alexander, 8th Army Cmdr., Bernard Montgomery & Alan Brooke (w. berets) as well as unident. staff officer & Lt. Gen. Freiberg of an attached New Zealand Div., somewhere in the Ortona sector during the Allied drive through Italy.