    
Title: A Walk in the Sun, September, 1943 Description: An Allied command post on the beach at Salerno, after U.S. and British troops had landed; Italy had surrendered just before the attack at Salerno, but Hitler ordered Field Marshal Albert Kesselring to rush crack German troops to the area to oppose the Allied invasion and throw the invaders back into the sea; one of the U.S. infantry companies invading Salerno was profiled in the 1945 introspective film A Walk in the Sun (AKA: Salerno Beachhead); Date: September 9, 1943 Category: World War II Keywords: command posts, command positions, Invasion of Italy, Operation Avalanche, Second World War, World War II, WWII Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1740 x 894 (1.56 MPixels) (1.95) Print Size: 14.7 x 7.6 cm; 5.8 x 3.0 inches File Size: 4.46 MB (4,674,058 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010255 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
