[American soldier carrying a child to safe refuge followed by group of people, near Cassino, Italy]

[Girls playing in a circle amid the rubble of the old orphanage, destroyed building in the background, Monte Cassino, Italy]

[Girls playing in a circle amid the rubble of the old orphanage, destroyed building in the background, Monte Cassino, Italy]

Women and children of Italy, bereft by the Nazis of their homes, look to the U.S. for rehabilitation and resolution of their nation's uncertain destinies

[Three children walk on dirt road past the rubble of bombed out buildings, Monte Cassino, Italy]

[Woman walking and carrying a large bundle on her head, her shadow seems a tree, Calabria, Italy]

[Italian soldier guiding men from the joint U.S.-Canadian Special Service Force, Radicosa, Italy]

[Arturo Toscanini playing piano in his home. In the library case are the death masks of Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi, Italy]