[Crowds greeting American troops upon entering the city, Monreale, on the outskirts of Palermo, Sicily]

[Boat that had been blown out of the water during an Allied bombing raid, Palermo, Sicily]

[People holding bread and walking down the street two days after the liberation of the city, Luigi Pirandello Square, Agrigento, Sicily]

[American troops marching toward strategic hilltop town that the Germans had determined to hold at all costs, near Troina, Sicily]

[Soldiers on recconnaissnace mission near stone steps, near Troina, Sicily]

[Soldier walking through field on recconnaissnace mission, near Troina, Sicily]

[People in front of the remains of the Central Post Office, where the Germans planted a time bomb that denotated after they abandoned the city, Naples]

[Workman repositioning a broken book on a salvaged marble statues from the nearby Abbey destroyed during the war, Monte Cassino, Italy]