Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr. (right), commander of the U.S. Seventh Army, at the Royal Palace in Palermo with his rival, General Bernard L. Montgomery (center), commander of the British Eighth Army, and Major General Geoffrey Keyes, Patton’s deputy.


Commanders

U.S. infantrymen push past the Temple of Neptune at Paestum, center of the American sector during the landings around Salerno Bay, Italy. Still the grandest complex of Doric temples outside Athens, Paestum had been a 6th century B.C. Greek colony, famed in antiquity for roses and violets.


Past ancient ruins

A homeless orphan until "adopted" by the GIs, this Italian youngster proudly wears his new outfit of modified Army issue as he directs traffic through the town of San Vittore, Italy (Anzio front) in his new job - honorary MP.