Conceal behind a hill along an out-of-the-way campaign track for elude the ubiquitous Allied fighter-bombers was vain. Likely this was the fate of this German mechanized column completely destroyed in an area up North of Rome (perhaps near one of the great northward Consular Ways) during the retreat from the Italian Capital (liberated by the Allies on 4 June 1944) and discovered by the advancing British troops. The completely burned truck in foreground is a former Italian Army vehicle, one of many seized by the German forces on September 1943 after the Armistice of the Italy with the Allies, a Fiat truck, likely a 626. Victor Sierra

Along a campaign track

North of Rome, 18 June 1944: the signs of the German troop’s retreat long a road’s edge. The plate of the vehicle on the right seem of Luftwaffe (WL). In background a derelict 88 mm gun and an American vehicle in transit. A British serviceman examine one of the German helmets abandoned near the wrecks. Victor Sierra

Signs of the retreat

German mountain troops at the Kiestinki roadway.