An Italian family is chatting with the newly arrived U.S. soldiers after the occupation of the town of Paestum, some ten miles south of the landing site of Salerno, Italy; September 28, 1943. 

Making new friends

Italian youngsters assisting American infantry soldiers with their equipment during their march on Rome. The Italians regarded the advancing Allied soldiers as liberators; May 5, 1944. 

Welcome to Italy

U.S. and captured German medics attend to a wounded American soldier during the Anzio, Italy campaign; 6 February, 1944. 