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

Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. and Gen. J. Lawton Collins attend the funeral of Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in Normandy, France on July 13, 1944. 

Funeral in Normandy

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. 