Earth and rubble are thrown skyward as Allied planes and guns pound Cassino, the German bastion in Western Italy.
The ruins of the Abbey of Monte Cassino in Cassino, Italy, during World War II, 1944. It was destroyed by US bombers during the Battle of Monte...
German shells trying to destroy an American jeep driving along the road to San Pietro in the Cassino Valley.
Postcard published by the Partito Nazionale Fascista depicting a gigantic Japanese Samurai warrior, backed by Nazi German, Italian and Japanese...
Italian propaganda postcard. Italian, German Nazi and Japanese flags fly above a tank crushing the ragged flags of the United Kingdom, the USA and...
Moroccan troops herd captured German mountain troops through a battered village. Fighters from Morocco and Algeria fought side by side with the...
Line of captured Nazi prisoners, led by a beaming American, marches past the foxhole of American infantrymen in the Carroceto area, near Naples.
American Artillery destroying a village North of Venafro, Italy which had become a German stronghold - a shell at lower right can be seen at the...
World war, italy theater of war, monte cassino battle :command post of a german paratrooper company in the ruins of a house in Cassino; on the right...
An allied Sherman Tank passing a knocked out German Panther tank during the advance on Arezzo, Italy.
The Monastery at Monte Cassino, as seen from the German lines, shows that only the outer walls have survived the Allied bombing.
78th anniversary of the massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine on March 24, 2022 in Rome, Italy. Ardeatine massacre was were killed, 335 civilians and...
Rome, Italy- A division of veterans, all of whom have been wounded fighting for Italy, left Rome recently to help the Italian armies in the Ethiopian...
In this view unexploded bombs from the Second World War are seen on dry waters in the Po river in the province of Mantua on August 4, 2022 in...
In this view unexploded bombs from the Second World War are seen on dry waters in the Po river in the province of Mantua on August 4, 2022 in...
Heron stands on a large 55-meter barge that was sunk by WWII American bombing in 1944 while preventing retreat of the German army, that re-emerged...
Leghorn, Italy: The beautiful cathedral at Leghorn was one of the casualties of the war. Some of the debris has been cleared up and all that was...
In this view unexploded bombs from the Second World War are seen on dry waters in the Po river in the province of Mantua on August 4, 2022 in...
In this view unexploded bombs from the Second World War are seen on dry waters in the Po river in the province of Mantua on August 4, 2022 in...
Italian Blackshirts, or fascist paramilitary squad, in military formation during World War Two, Italy, circa 1939-1945.
In this view an unexploded bomb from the Second World War is seen on dry waters in the Po river in the province of Mantua on August 4, 2022 in...
Italian soldiers enter a town near Messina in Sicily and wave white flags to signal their surrender to the Allies during World War II.
The crowd celebrating the fall of Fascism by waving Italian flags and showing a portrait of Victor Emmanuel III. Rome, 26th July 1943
Group of Italian partisans who helped South African troops entering Pistoia in Italy to ferret out German snipers and pockets of resistance.
View from one of the 150 Allied B17 Flying Fortress bombers attacking the San Lorenzo freight yard and steel factory in Rome, 19th July 1943. During...
In this view unexploded bombs from the Second World War are seen on dry waters in the Po river in the province of Mantua on August 4, 2022 in...
The crew of an M24 Chaffee light tank of the US 81st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 1st Armored Division, driving along a war-ravaged street near...
Crowds line the streets to greet US troops as they liberate Milan towards the end of the Second World War.
German soldiers unloading looted Florentine masterpieces including Luca Signorelli's 'Crucifixion' in Alto Adige, 13 August 1944.
View shows a barge that was sunk by WWII American bombing in 1944 while preventing retreat of the German army, that re-emerged due to severe drought...
Picture released in 1944 of troops crossing the mids of debris of the rubble-strewn streets in Rimini, Italy, during the 2nd World war.
Allied troops marching past the ruins of a town, following the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War Two, May 1944.
Benito Mussolini inspects the fully armed police 'shock troops' of the Fascist Militia during celebrations, in Rome, of the 17th aniversary of their...
Four Italian guerilla resistance fighters wait in ambush with their rifles leveled in the dirt, the Apennines, Italy. The Italian resistance aided...
Woman with a fur stole supplements her bread ration with loaves from a black market trader in Milan. Illegal bread costs 350 lire per kilo, a third...
United States troops walk down a curved street past the Coliseum in Rome, Italy. A Roman gentleman walks in the opposite direction, using a cane. The...
In this view unexploded bombs from the Second World War are seen on dry waters in the Po river in the province of Mantua on August 4, 2022 in...
French troops of the 5th Army advance through the ruined streets of Portoferraic on the island of Elba.
Ruins of the Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura after allied bombing, Rome, Italy, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXX, No 30,...
Rudolf Hess , a German statesman in Hitler's Nazi party cabinet, inspects the Guard of Honour in Rome, accompanied by Count Galeazzo Ciano and...
North American B-25 Mitchell Twin engine medium bomber "Peggy Lou" from the 445th Bomber Squadron, 321st Bombardment Group, 57th Bomb Wing of the...
Citizens welcoming Italian troops on Via Rizzoli, following the liberation of Bologna, World War Two, Italy, April 21st 1945.
Allied relief organisations establish food centres, in this case in an Italian town, to feed a population left destitute by the Nazis.
