Photos Taken in Italy | World War II Database

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Oliver Leese and other British officers at Cassino, Italy, May-Jun 1944	US infantry running past a burning tank, Rome, Italy, 4 Jun 1944

American tank destroyers at the Colosseum, Rome, Italy, Jun 1944	American troops in Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy, Jun 1944

American troops in Rome, circa Jun 1944; note the 'Rome Area Command' building on left and Victor Emmanuel II Monument in background	B-24 Liberator “Memories” of the 465th Bomb Group over Ferrara, Italy Jun 5 1944.

US Army soldiers march past the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, shortly after the German forces departed, Jun 5 1944.	British generals Harold Alexander and Oliver Leese decorated with Polish Virtuti Military Cross awards, Italy, Jul 1944

US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson greeting a Japanese-American US Army captain of 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Route 68, north of Cecina, Italy, 6 Jul 1944	Rear Admiral Gerard Mansfield (left), Admiral John Cunningham (center), and King George VI of the United Kingdom (right) inspecting HMS Orion, Naples, Italy, 10 Jul 1944

A Churchill infantry tank being unloaded from a Diamond T tank transporter, Arezzo, Italy, 19 Jul 1944 Best	Armorers load .50 caliber ammunition into the four Browning M2 machine guns of a P-38 Lightning fighter with the USAAF 1st Fighter Group. 1944 photo probably taken at Salsola Airfield, part of the Foggia group, Italy.

Capt Andrew D Turner, 100th Fighter Squadron CO, and Lt. Clarence P. (Lucky) Lester on the Marsden Matting of Ramitelli Airstrip, Italy. Behind them is Maj Turner’s P-51C “Skipper’s Darlin’ III.” 1 Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2.	Pilots of the “Tuskegee Airmen,” 332nd Fighter Group in front of P-51C “Skipper’s Darlin’ III” flown by Capt Andrew Turner (2nd from right), at Ramitelli, Italy, 1 Aug 1944. Photo 1 of 2.

B-24H Liberator “Big Dog’s?” of the 739th Bomb Squadron crash landed while returning from practice mission, Bari Airfield, Italy, Aug 4 1944.	19-year-old pilot Lt Edwin Wright, already with over 80 missions flown, examining flak damage to his P-47 Thunderbolt on a raid to Münster, Austria, Oct 1944. Wright returned safely to his base in Italy.

Spare and surplus USAAF aircraft at Bari Airfield, Italy, Oct 1944.	Major David G. Bellemere with the 455th Bomb Group standing in front of B-24H Liberator 'TePee Time Gal' wearing typical protective clothing, San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy, 1944-45

View north from Futa Pass, Firenzuola, Italy, 1944	B-26 aircraft at rest, Italy, 1945