UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II
Pictorial Record
THE WAR AGAINST
GERMANY AND ITALY:
MEDITERRANEAN AND
ADJACENT AREAS
CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY
UNITED STATES ARMY
WASHINGTON, D.C., 1988
First Printed 1951—C M H Pub 12-2
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UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II
Kent Roberts Greenfield, General Editor
Advisory Committee
James P. Baxter
President, Williams College
Henry S. Commager
Columbia University
Douglas S. Freeman
Richmond News Leader
Pendleton Herring
Social Science Research Council
John D. Hicks
University of California
William T. Hutchinson
University of Chicago
S. L. A. Marshall
Detroit News
E. Dwight Salmon
Amherst College
Col. Thomas D. Stamps
United States Military Academy
Charles S. Sydnor
Duke University
Charles H. Taylor
Harvard University
Office of the Chief of Military History
Maj. Gen. Orlando Ward, Chief
| Chief Historian | Kent Roberts Greenfield |
| Chief, World War II Group | Col. Allison R. Hartman |
| Editor-in-Chief | Hugh Corbett |
| Chief, Pictorial Unit | Lt. Col. John C. Hatlem, USAF |
| Assistant, Pictorial Unit | Capt. Kenneth E. Hunter |
| Assistant, Pictorial Unit | Miss Margaret E. Tackley |
... to Those Who Served
Foreword
During World War II the photographers of the United States Army, AirForce, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard created on film a pictorialrecord of immeasurable value. Thousands of their pictures are preservedin the photographic libraries of the armed services, little seen by thepublic.
In the volumes of UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II now being preparedby the Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of theArmy, it is possible to include only a limited number of pictures. Asubseries of pictorial volumes, of which this is one, has been plannedto supplement the other volumes of the series. The photographs havebeen selected to show important terrain features, types of equipmentand weapons, living and weather conditions, military operations, andvarious matters of human interest. These volumes will preserve and makeaccessible for future reference some of the best pictures of WorldWar II. An appreciation not only of the terrain on which actions werefought, but of its influence on the capabilities and limitations ofweapons, in the hands of both our troops and the enemy’s, can be gainedthrough a careful study of t