British infantrymen walking through the ruins of San Angelo, 15 May 1944

Photograph, World War Two, Italy (1943-1945), 1944.

San Angelo was a fortified town in the Cassino area. Two attempts to capture it had already been made before the Gurkhas finally succeeded in penetrating the township on 13 May 1944.

From a collection of 650 photographs compiled by the Commando Association.