An infantryman provides cover while others advance on German-held houses, March 4, 1945
"4 Mar 45, 5/MM-45-3808. Fifth Army, Sassomolare area, Italy. Infantrymen of "K" Co., 87th Mtn Inf., 10th Mtn. Div., having occupied a ridge commanding the Porretta-Moderna Highway, find it necessary to hold another house about 100 ft. down the reverse slope as protection for their left flank. A rifleman with fixed bayonet keeps the windows of both housese covered while mop up squad move across open ground toward the buildings. 5 Germans are in house at right. Photo by Baker. 196th Sig. Photo Co."
- Date
- 1945
- Photographer / author
- Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,999 × 6,357 pixels
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