Po Valley, Northern Italy 1945

Italy road map 1 200,000, AMS series M592, sheets 8 and 11 DPLA e43b463a7002e93c6d0bdf82257adda7

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Map of US IV and II Corps breakthrough into the Po valley, April 1945

In background is a half-finished bailey bridge and a Sherman tank that is out of action. 3 March, 1945. 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division. Photographer: Baker, 196th Signal Photo Co.

The Germans had refused to surrender to troops occupying this knoll about 150-200 yards away. 3 March, 1945. Company K, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division. Photographer: Baker, 196th Signal Photo Co.

This U.S. Army photo was taken 3 March 1945 in the Monte Terminale area of Italy during the campaign in the North Apennines. It shows an M-10 tank destroyer of the 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion (U.S. Fifth Army), as it advances along a mountain road in support of the 10th Mountain Division, which is pushing north from Poretta on Route 64 toward the Po Valley.

2nd Battalion, 86th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division. Photographer: Graning, 196th Signal Photo Co.

Ponte di Bomporto sul fiume panaro nel 1945

"3 Mar 45, 5/MM-45-3737. Fifth Army, M. della Vedetta, Italy. Prisoners are flushed out of house by assault platoon of "K" Co., 87th Mtn. Inf., 10th Mtn. Div., during the attack on Monte della Vedetta on the Poretta-Moderna Highway toward the Po Valley. The Germans had refused to surrender to troops occupying this knoll about 150-200 yards away. Photo by Baker. 196th Sig. Photo Co."