Canada WW2 - Italy 1943-44

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RCA 17-pounder anti-tank gun crew of the 57th Battery, 1st Anti-Tank Regiment, supporting actions near Campobasso, Italy, 25 October 1943. (L-R): Gunner F.S. Steel, Lance-Corporal R.V. McKeachie and Gunner W.O. Jorheim. (Photo by Jack Smith, LAC a213693)
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14-15 December 1943 - 70 years ago, the infantry of the Royal 22e Regiment and the tanks of The Ontario Regiment performed a combined arms operation that led to Canada’s first Victoria Cross in Italy for Capt Paul Triquet at Casa Berardi, Italy.
Sherman tanks of the Calgary Regt & Three Rivers Regt advancing towards the Arno River, supporting the infantry of 8th Indian Division. PHOTO: A tank crew of the Three Rivers Regt surveys maps as infantrymen of the 21st Indian Infantry Brigade advance near Montespertoli, Italy, ca. 27 July 1944. (LAC a177530, photographer unknown). #WW2 #Italy #OTD #OnThisDay #Florence #Arno Italian Campaign, Airborne Forces, Canadian Soldiers, Canadian Forces, Canadian Military, Arno River, Canadian Army, Canadian History, Military Photos
Sherman tanks of the Calgary Regt & Three Rivers Regt advancing towards the Arno River, supporting the infantry of 8th Indian Division. PHOTO: A tank crew of the Three Rivers Regt surveys maps as infantrymen of the 21st Indian Infantry Brigade advance near Montespertoli, Italy, ca. 27 July 1944. (LAC a177530, photographer unknown). #WW2 #Italy #OTD #OnThisDay #Florence #Arno
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26 October 1943 - On this day, 70 years ago, Canadian Film & Photo Unit photographer Lt. Terry Rowe was in the mountain village of Colle d’Anchise when he captured Private M.D. White of The Loyal Edmonton Regiment observing through a broken stone wall in the village. Rowe shot this photo with two different cameras — one for this colour transparency, and the other a B&W 2-1/4” square format, perhaps a Rolleiflex as used by other WW2 photographers like Robert Capa and Ken Bell.
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Ortona, Italy. A jeep and a 15-cwt. truck of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada are set alight by mortar fire, 23 December 1943. The church at the left of the picture was being used as company headquarters. (Photo by Terry Rowe, LAC a170291.)
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FIVE months before he was killed in ANZIO, Lt. Terry Rowe took a photo of Private Dave King, his driver with the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, talking with an Italian man who had lived in King’s hometown of Burlington, Ontario, for a number of years. Photo taken by Rowe in Delianuova, Italy, ca. 5 September 1943. (Library and Archives Canada a183310). Dave King was injured at Anzio by the same 88mm shell that killed Rowe on 6 February 1944.
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6 FEBRUARY 1944 - ANZIO, ITALY On this day, 70 years ago, Cdn Film & Photo Unit photographer Terry Rowe, of Winnipeg, was killed. His camera team gathered outside their billets when a German 88mm shell landed nearby. Rowe was killed instantly, while Lt Colin McDougall & the driver, Dave King of Burlington ON, were seriously wounded. PHOTO: Lt. Terry Faulkner Rowe, Cdn Film and Photo Unit, No. 1 Canadian Public Relations Group, Canadian Military Headquarters. Buried at Anzio War Cemetery, Italy.
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Cdns advancing on Campobasso, Italy, still need a Thanksgiving dinner amidst the bitter fighting against Germans. The censor has blacked out the cap badge on this Canadian Highlander’s balmoral, but the two highland regiments in 1st Division where the Seaforth Highlanders (Vancouver) and 48th Highlanders (Toronto). (Photographer: undetermined, perhaps Fred Whitcombe)
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Cost of the Campobasso objective. In Baranello, Italy, 19 October 1943, Cpl Blackwood and Pte Barnes, of The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, prepare grave crosses for their own fatalities. In photo, the two foreground crosses are for 2 of the 8 men killed 6 Oct 43 — Major James Edward Temple McMULLEN, Pte Walter Arnold REIMER.
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Major-General Bert Hoffmeister, commanding the untested Cdn 5th Armoured Division, briefs officers on 13 May 1944, before the Cdn 1st Corps is committed to the Battle of the Liri Valley. Hoffmeister won’t have to wait long for action. Here, Hoffmeister points to the ultimate goal, Rome, at the top of the Liri Valley. (Photo by Strathy Smith, LAC, a189922) #OTD #MLU70
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The medium format B&W version of Private White in Colle d'Anchise, Italy, by CFPU photographer Terry Rowe, working with Canadian Army Public Relations #1 in Italy. (LAC a141867)
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14 October 1943 - On this day 70 years ago, Cdn 1st Division took their 8th Army objective of Campobasso, Italy, after 2 weeks of brutal combat not yet seen on mainland Italy. IMAGE: Campobasso (oil on canvas c.1945) by Charles Comfort (1900-1994). Charles Comfort painted the Italian landscape near Campobasso in a style closer to Renaissance art Cdn war art. The Canadian 1st Div red patch soldiers are preparing for battle at the very bottom of his canvas. (© Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada)
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