Rome, Summer 1944: an Allied M8 armoured car in transit along Via Tuscolana on the towns’ suburb under the eyes of the neighborhood’s inhabitants Victor Sierra

On the Rome’s suburb

Young lad enjoying the seabreeze and icecream... sitting on a German seamine.

Sea and icecream

Bologna’s suburb, April 1945: an old Italian woman sitting mourning in the ruins with a coffin waiting for the dead. Bologna fell to 8th British and 5th Army American troops on 21 April 1945. Despite a warning to get out of the town before the Allied air attack, many people remained. Victor Sierra