Major General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., (left) commander of the U.S. VI Corps, and Lieutenant General Ira Eaker, the senior U.S. air commander in the Mediterranean, inspect sandbag-and-wine barrel fortifications around the Anzio airfield on April 6, 1944.


Wine barrel fortifications 

Right: Captain Dick Winters standing before the HQ of Col.Strayers in the Netherlands.He was there preparing for a daring rescuemission of British Para's stuck  on the Rhinebank near Arnhem.The mission was succesfully executed on the night of 23/24 october 1944.
Left: Actor Damian Lewis,playing Dick Winters in Band of Brothers ,standing on the same spot 64 years later.

Captain Dick Winters

U.S. Army military policemen toasting bread over molten lava from Vesuvius in Italy. The volcano’s spectacular eruption, which began on March 18, 1944, would be the last of the twentieth century.
