During the operations around Cassino an Allied soldier looking for a road sign with the distance from Rome: 58 km. The two others are military signpost for the Allies troops. Spring 1944. Victor Sierra

Still long the way to Rome

Royal Engineers & Drivers of 147 Bridge Coy RASC R.A.S.C (Re's ATT) 1944 France Belgium Holland Germany Photo taken before 1944.D Photo: Duncan Hull

Royal Engineers & Drivers 147 Bridge Company RASC

Cutella Airfield, Central-Southern Italy, Adriatic Front, base of 3 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force, a fighter unit equipped with Curtiss Kittyhawk, 29 April 1944. American pilots flying four USAAF 325th Group’s P-47 Thunderbolts mistakenly strafed the Allied base thinking it was a German airfield as some Kittyhawk was in the dispersal with 500lb bombs loaded) destroying one of Australian fighters and killing the pilot of an air-sea-rescue unit’s Walrus. Victor Sierra