Ruins looking in the Gari river’s water, none living soul, a death’s silence: Cassino, 1944 (Davis, Frank J. photo). Victor Sierra

A ghostly landscape

Fatal accident to an USAAF’s Lockheed P-38 Lightning crashed in Italy, 1943, and totally destroyed by the post-crash fire. Notice in foreground the pilot’s remains. Victor Sierra

A pilot’s death

A Bailey bridge destroyed by the artillery fire, a knocked out Sherman tank, a column smoke from the ruins, the shaved Monastery Ridge: Cassino, 1944. Victor Sierra