Sicily Italy

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Men of the 2/6th Queens's Regiment advance past a pair of burning German PzKpfw IV tank in the Salerno area, September 1943

Signallers take cover in a ditch as an enemy mortar bomb explodes near their jeep,

A German gun position in a vineyard firing on the Allied advance to Naples.

 

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A 3-inch mortar of the 5th Hampshire Regiment in action at Salerno, 15 September 1943.

A patrol of the 2/7th Queen's Regiment enters the village of Pugliano, 18-19 September 1943.

A Sherman tank crew with a local Italian girl in Cava, 24 September 1943

Royal Engineers constructing a bridge to replace one blown by the retreating Germans, 26 September 1943.

 

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Would you believe it, the British Army working instead of having a cup of tea!

 

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^ha!