16-201 Garand Picture of the Day - Cisterna, Italy

[Mark in Rochester]

American soldiers firing back at unseen German sniper during the battle for Cisterna.


Location:Cisterna, Italy

Date taken: June 1944

Photographer: George Silk



Alert for German snipers an American infantryman aims his rifle through window of a battered Cisterna building during the mop up of Nazis remaining in town after it fell.” Cisterna, Italy. 27 May 1944

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[Flying10uk]

A headmaster of mine served in Italy during the war and he was still there in 1945 when it ended. All he would tell us was that he served in the Army in Italy and he would never go into any detail which, I guess, he took to the grave. Sadly, his brother was killed elsewhere in a Sunderland flying boat but I am not sure if it was due to enemy action or an accident.

[Bob Seijas]

Step back, boys, let the big guy handle this one.

[CINDERS]

Interesting to see the censor has masked the left shoulder flash of the middle GI, plenty of spray and pray between that lot

[browningautorifle]

censor has masked the left shoulder flash

I saw that too, they seem to have missed the odd thing from time to time.

[Cass]

Cisterna (Cisternia) sounded familiar, so I checked Dad's log books. He was there from May 30 through June 5, 1944 flying artillery observation in an L-4H. From the entries, the artillery was busy all those days: "fired on enemy guns, fired on enemy tanks and counter attack, fired on enemy troops and C.P., fired on enemy convoy on Highway 7, and flew over Rome - got enemy flak".

It cool to see pictures from the same time.

Cass