4.2-inch mortar of 15th Brigade (British 5th Division) Mortar Support Company in action, Anzio (Italy) bridgehead, 16 March, 1944.


Mortar crew in action

A British soldier with the 2/7th Middlesex Regiment shares a cup of tea with an American infantryman in the Anzio bridgehead; Italy, 10 February 1944.

A cup of tea kindness

Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England with Gen. William Hood Simpson, Commander in Chief of the U.S. 9th Army, (Field Marshal Montgomery is behind Gen. Simpson) and others tour the ruins of Jülich, Germany, on the Siegfried Line, March 7, 1945