DESCRIPTION OF BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS:
1)In the center, USA General Mark Clark, on his right the commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) Gen. Joao Baptista Mascarenhas de Moraes. To his left, there is a US colonel.
2)From left: the USA military chaplain, then the Franciscan friar Farneti from Gaggio M., whose sister was killed by the Nazis, then Captain USA Garcia, observing the remains of civilians killed by the Nazis in retaliation on 29/9/1944 in "Ronchidos" di Gaggio Montano.
3)Gen. J.B. Mascarenhas de Moraes sitting on a jeep holding a pear offered by the women of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.
4)Friar Farneti, USA chaplain, and Cap. USA Garcia.
5)Italian disarmed Alpine troops, from the Majella Brigade, Julia Division, with mules, transporting ammunition and supplies to the Brazilians on State Road 64.
6)Italian children (hungry) receive food from the FEB soldiers.
7)German soldiers captured by US tankers in the Bolognese Apennines.
8)US troops marching on Monte Belvedere in the municipality of Lizzano.
9)Italian mule and US soldier, with a semi-automatic Winchester rifle caliber 6.12 with an external magazine of 12 rounds.
10)Gothic Line. Bolognese Apennines. Winter 1944/1945. The houses were like this.
11)Brazilian soldiers load wounded onto an ambulance in Montese. The inn was used as a first aid station.
12)Gaggio Montano under the snow, in the center is the village and among the trees is my summer residence.
13)Cap. Garcia observes two farmers from Gaggio M. recovering the remains of their family members killed in the Ronchidos area by Nazi reprisal.
14)US doctors check the contents of Nazi canned food left behind.
15)Recovery of the bodies of the 69 civilians from Gaggio killed by the Nazis as reprisal in the "Ronchidos" area.
16)US nurses transport their wounded in a basket used by farmers to transport manure in the fields.
17)Gaggio Montano covered in snow. At the top, the ridge of the mountain (Serra di Ronchidos) dividing the provinces of Bologna and Modena.
18)Children and women waiting for the leftover food offered by US soldiers.
19)Italian partisans transport one of their wounded.
20)US soldiers in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna on April 25, 1945.
21)Gaggio Montano: in the center towards the right the village and my summer residence.
22)US soldiers in a line leaving Bologna heading north. That building is the old “Porta Saffi” of the walls surrounding Bologna in the Middle Ages.
23)Brazilian soldiers observe the effect of a German mortar strike in a square in Porretta Terme.
24)US nurses and tankers at the crossroads in Montese.
25)Platoon of Brazilians reviewed by various officers. The small one in the second row with glasses and only his face visible is Gen. J.B. Mascarenhas de Moraes, at the crossroads with the road to Granaglione. At the front is Gen. Mark Clark, head of the US V Army, and in the second row with white hair is Gen. USA Willy Crittenberger, followed by Capt. USA Walther. Those with clean shoes are North Americans. Those with muddy shoes are Brazilians.
26)Brazilian soldiers marching in Gaggio Montano. A Brazilian truck stopped at the roadside.
27)US soldiers and tanks marching in the Bolognese Apennines. They are observing a dead German soldier.
28) Allied Grouping - Bologna 21 April 1945
29) Bologna roadsign 21/4/1945
30) Castel d’Aiano, rubble of the bombed village.
31) Castel d’Aiano, Church and bell tower after a bombing.
32) Gen. Dutra - Brazilian Minister of War - reviewing a platoon of the FEB.
33) Bologna - Piazza Maggiore - 1945 US tankers.
34) 6th South African Armoured Division near Bologna.
35) US troops in Monghidoro in 1945.
36) US workshop in Monghidoro in 1945.
37) US wrecker in Monghidoro in 1945.
38) British Captain R. Russel examines aerial surveys.
39) US "Combat Camera" photographer with a folding plate camera.
40) US dental medical officer visits an Italian boy.
41) US patrol transports ammunition.
42) US patrol transports a wounded soldier.
43) Soldiers in a trench in the Bolognese Apennines.
44) US Jeep of the 10th Mountain Division, 85th Regiment, Company I. Same company as Lt. Robert Dole, later a candidate for US presidency.
45) Bologna, April 1945, US tankers in front of the municipal palace.
46) Bologna 1945, US MPs and Italian Bersaglieri in front of the municipal palace.
47) Bologna, bombed railway station; in the background via Carracci.
48) US MPs and Italian partisans guard a pontoon bridge.
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