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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 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...

• 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 1944-02-14

  Snow camouflage coated AFPU cameraman, Sergeant Eric Deeming, filming troops of the 2nd Coy., 1st Battalion, 1st Carpathian Rifles Brigade, 3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, returning from a patrol. Height 1210, north of Rionero in Vulture.

• THE CAMPAIGN IN SICILY 1943

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

  The Drive for Messina 10 July - 17 August 1943: A British soldier views the town of Villa Rosa from a nearby hill. The word 'DUCE' is painted in large letters on all the buildings.

• THE CAMPAIGN IN SICILY 1943

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

  Personalities: The British commanders of Operation Husky planning their operations in Malta, left to right: The Chief of Staff to General Montgomery, Major General F W de Guingand; Senior Air Staff Officer to Air Vice Marshal Broadhurst, Air Commodore C...

• THE CAMPAIGN IN SICILY 1943

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

  Personalities: The Commander of 13 Corps, Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey with two of his staff (Major Priestly and Captain Hay) in Sicily.

• THE CAMPAIGN IN SICILY 1943

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

  Personalities: The Commander of the Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Montgomery, surrounded by a sea of forage caps as he addresses troops at a camp in Malta before they leave for Sicily.

• THE ALLIED LANDINGS AT ANZIO: 22 JANUARY-23 MAY 1944

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

  British soldiers take cover from German shelling in a shallow trench during the breakout. The trench is similar to many which were dug along the opposing front lines during the lifetime of the bridgehead.

• THE ALLIED LANDINGS AT ANZIO: 22 JANUARY-23 MAY 1944

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

  A British Bren gun crew keep watch in a trench at Anzio.