Overlooked by the ruins of the hill-top monastery, South African engineers of 11th Field Company, South African Engineer Corps, clear rubble from "Route 6", the main road through Cassino. The final German resistance had ceased only hours before; May 19, 1944. 

Ruins all around

South African troops of 1991 Swaziland Smoke Company wait to board landing craft at Castellammare, north-western Sicily, Italy, before sailing for Anzio, Ialy; January 1944. The unit was responsible for creating smokescreens over the invasion area. 

Under barrage balloons

Nationalist troops around the wreck of a downed republican Polikarpov R Z Natacha. Probably 1938. DVX