A wounded German prisoner of war awaits medical treatment along the bank of the Volturno river in the Italian front, on October 17, 1943.


Wounded but survived

Christmas dinner 1943, in Italy, on the hood of a jeep. The striped unit patch on the sleeve and helmet of the soldier on the right shows that he belongs to the 3rd Infantry Division; the other two men served in the 163rd Signal Company.


Christmas dinner

U.S. troops from the 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment and 143rd Infantry climb through the rubble of San Pietro on December 17, 1943. A gunner described the Italian village as “one large mound of desolation.”
