Cairo, high peak in the background, Fifth Army fighters have three-quarters circled the enemy, the Abbey of Monte Cassino, perched in the mountain above Cassino (left of town), bristles with Nazi guns trying to thwart our drive to Rome. The burst of smoke in the right foreground reveals an American gun position firing on Nazi installations in Cassino, the shell-torn town huddled at the foot of the mountain ridge in the background. Italy – A photo from an Allied observation plane, looking north over the Cassino Battlefield, gives a bird’s-eye view of the embattled valley on the road to Rome. Hughes, Jr., USN, commanding officer of the USS Somers, which caught the blockade runners, supervises the transportation of the German prisoners from the port to which the captives were brought. Our men picked up hundreds of tons of baled rubber found floating amid the wreckage of the sunken ships, and took many prisoners. Navy Forces operating in the South Atlantic early last month sank three German blockade runners heavily laden with vital war materials for the Reich. Credit: (ACME photo by Charles Seawood for the War Picture Pool, transmitted via U.S. Behind them are other refugees, making their way back to their homes in territory now occupied by the Yanks. Italy – Pfc Manuel Martins of New Jersey lends a helping hand to an aged Italian woman crossing a makeshift bridge in the Mussolini Canal Sector of Italy. They were being hauled to reinforce the German units facing the British Eighth Army. The tanks are Mark IIIs, mounted with assault guns. A trainload of Nazi tanks moves east of the town of Macerata, near the Adriatic coast of Italy, in this photo, made by a reconnaissance pilot of the U.S.A.A.F.
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