1949 Press Photo Sgt. Louis Gallo & Child at 3rd Infantry Memorial, Anzio, Italy

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1949 Press Photo Sgt. Louis Gallo & Child at 3rd Infantry Memorial, Anzio, Italy
This is an original press photo. Anzio, Italy: At dawn of Jan. 22, 1944, Brooklyn, NY. Sgt. Louis Gallo hit the beach at Anzio, Italy, with the 3rd US Infantry Division. Five years later, on the anniversary of that historic landing, twice-wounded and decorated with 8 battle stars, Mr. Louis Gallo, now a veterans administrator of the US Embassy in Rome, returned to Anzio -- and had difficulty recognizing it. Only a rust landing barge, a few shell-wrecked houses, and some coils of barbed wire remain today in an area where almost 5,000 allied troops died to retain a tiny toe-hold, 40 miles south of Rome, during the drive into occupied Europe. "Five years ago," related Gallo, pointing to the beach, "Thousands of dead GIs littered this place." Now some of those dead are being placed in a permanent army cemetery in nearby Nettuno. Gallo marveled at the rebuilding which has turned a wrecked town of 8,000 persons, as he last knew Anzio, into a community with reconstructed streets, repaired houses, and modern shops. But Gallo found many unmistakable by-products of war in the area. Poor peasants in "Shanty Town" have rebuilt their huts with US Army shell boxes and ration tins. The rusty landing barge serves as a diving board for summer visitors from Rome. And in honor of Gallo's division stands a small memorial, topped by a battered tin can, containing withered flowers offered long ago by some grateful Italian. With his arm around little Maria, 5-year-old resident of Anzio, Italy, Louis Gallo reads the inscription on the 3rd Infantry division memorial. Near this spot Sgt. Gallo was first wounded. Photo measures 8.75 x 7.25 inches. Photo is dated 01-16-1949.
Part Number: lrx29626
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