[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]

[Two soldiers in a hospital set up in a church, Maiori, Italy]

[Soldier in makeshift kitchen in a farmhouse at strategic outpost, Chiunzi Pass, above Maiori, Italy]

[American soldiers fighting resistance and crouching in underbrush, along road to Naples]

[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]

[General Alphonse Juin (right), commander of the 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division, near Mount Pantano, northeast of Cassino, Italy]