After the fall of the defensive "Gustav Line", tanks of the British 78th Infantry Division cross a pontoon bridge in the Liri valley, between Rome and Monte Cassino, Italy; May 1944.

British Forces on the move

British Eight Army in Italy.
The crew of a British machine gun, a 17-pounder (76.2-mm) antitank gun, and a Sherman tank waiting for the attack order in the Liri valley, between Rome and Monte Cassino;  May 1944


West of Monte Cassino

British soldiers greet and shake hands with an American jeep driver in the occupied German town of Issum, about 10 miles east of the Dutch border; 6 March, 1945.