The drive to Rome, Spring 1944: two Italian peasants looking at an American M8 columns in transit along a little town near the Appian Way. (Carl Mydans photo for Life). Victor Sierra

Along the Appian Way

Another Life’s photo of the Italian Campaign: Central Italy, August 1944, an US Army’s M5 Stuart light tank advances on a dusty way of a destroyed village followed by a DUKW amphibious truck likely during the operations against the Gothic Line. Notice the Jeep marching backwards sign that the village is already conquered by the Allied forces. Victor Sierra

Advancing through an Italian village

A U.S. tank rolls through a street in post-war Berlin as locals look on...