A local Italian resident, with upraised hands, greets the first GIs into Troina - a village approximately 20 miles south of the northern coast of Sicily - after a brutal battle in the vicinity, lasting nearly a week in early August 1943.

Welcome to our village

A First Sergeant of the U.S. Army uses a harness to carry his Division's mascot dog above the muddy ground somewhere on the western front; 1945.

Mascot of the Unit

Lt. General Mark Clark with reporters and troops near the commune of Borgo Grappa, about 20 miles east of the town of Anzio, Italy, during the linkup of the Cassino and Anzio Fronts; May 25, 1944.
