Jubilant citizens of Florence greet a New Zealand tank on 4 August 1944, the day the city was liberated by the Allies during the Italian Campaign.

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Captured German parachute troops file past a Sherman tank of the New Zealand 4th Armoured Brigade near the town of Cassino, Italy; 16 March 1944.



Fallschirmjäger taken POWs

Local residents greet a motorized unit of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in the Italian city of Massarossa, just north of Pisa; September, 1944.