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• THE BATTLES OF MONTE CASSINO, JANUARY - MAY 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-24

  Commander of the Polish 2nd Corps, Lieutenant General Władysław Anders and the Commander of the Allied Armies in Italy, General the Hon Sir Harold Alexander salute, after General Alexander had invested General Anders with the Order of the Bath in...

• THE BATTLES OF MONTE CASSINO, JANUARY - MAY 1944

  part of "ZIMNAL M (LT COL)" (photographs) Made by: Polish Official Photographer 1944-05-18

  Polish and British flags hoisted over ruins of Monte Cassino Abbey after its capture.

• THE BATTLE OF CASSINO, JANUARY-MAY 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-19

  Ruined shell of the Monte Cassino Monastery a day after it was captured by the 2nd Polish Corps troops. Photograph shows the only surviving wall of the Abbey after the bombardment in February 1944.

• THE BATTLES OF MONTE CASSINO, JANUARY - MAY 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-18

  A Sherman tank and jeep of the 4th Brigade entering the ruins of Cassino. The monastery of Cassino had formed the focal point of the German Gustav Line which they had successfully defended since November 1943. The fourth offensive led by Polish and...

• Cassino, Italy, 1944

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1944-07-20

  image: view along a road into the ruined town of Cassino. There are notices in English displayed by the roadside, one on the right and two to the left. The ruined buildings of the town can be seen further down the road and up the face of the hill in the...

• SERVICE OF LT COL J R ARCHER-BURTON WITH THE CORPS OF ROYAL MILITARY POLICE, EIGHTH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA, SICILY AND ITALY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ARCHER-BURTON J R (LT COL)" (photographs) 1944-05

  Polish troops outside the ruins of the monastery at Monte Cassino. Lt Col Archer-Burton was responsible for maintaining the supply routes in this area.

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-19

  Medics of the 2nd Brigade, the 3rd Carpathian Rifles Brigade (2nd Polish Corps) checking a picture of Jesus with a 'Heil Hitler' caption written across it. According to Polish writer, Melchior Wańkowicz, a witness of the battle, it was written by one of...

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945

  part of "ZIMNAL M (LT COL)" (photographs) Made by: Polish Official Photographer 1944

  General Władysław Anders, the CO of the 2nd Polish Corps (left), with General Alphonse Juin, the CO of the French Expeditionary Corps (middle) and General Sidney Kirkman, the CO of the XIII Corps, 8th British Army (right).

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-19

  Polish soldier (2nd Brigade, 3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, 2nd Polish Corps) inspecting piles of German tinned food and ammunition stocked on the altar in the Monte Cassino Abbey cathedral.

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1944-05-19

  Smiling Polish soldier (2nd Brigade, 3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, 2nd Polish Corps) in sleeping quarters of the German defenders in the Monte Cassino Abbey cathedral.