2 1/2 ton trucks (GMC SWB 352), a 105 mm M1 howitzer and soldiers of the U.S. 5th Army on board of an amphibious assault ship, are about to land on the beach in Italy; 1943.

Approaching the coast

Trucks of the Red Ball Express pause on the roadside. On the opposite side is a disabled truck in the ditch.
The Red Ball Express was a famed truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy in 1944.

Red Ball Express

M24 Chaffee light tank of US Army 1st Armored Division in Bologna, Italy, late April 1945.
taken from fb/Daniel del Moral/I love WW2 vehicles