PLACE IN THE SUN FOR THE NAVY, FAMOUS MEDITERRANEAN RESORT IS REST CAMP FOR MEN WHO SUPPLY THE BEACHHEAD. 26 APRIL 1944, AT ISCHIA, NAPLES. THE ISLAND OF ISCHEA HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A REST CAMP FOR NAVAL OFFICERS AND RATINGS OF SMALL CRAFT WHICH ARE SUPPLYING THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD, THEY LIVE IN COMFORTABLE HOTELS AND SPEND A LOT OF THEIR TIME JUST LYING IN THE SUN. SOME OF THE MEN EXPLORE THE 2,000 YEAR OLD CASTLE AND CLIMB THE MOUNTAINS.

This unpleasant-looking character is called the Squander Bug, and it was created during the Second World War by artist Phillip Boydell, an employee of the National Savings Committee. The cartoon bug appeared in press adverts and poster campaigns as a menace who encouraged shoppers to waste money rather than buy war savings certificates.

In 1942, the first of over 1.5 million American servicemen arrived on British shores in preparation for the Allied offensives against Germany during the Second World War. That year, the United States' War Department published Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain to help soldiers, sailors and airmen – many of whom had never travelled abroad before – adjust to life in a new country.