Roque, Sgt Leo, and Larry, thanks for the info!
I'm a nincompoop, but you've probably figured that out by now!
and screwed up putting the other photo on.
Here it is. Anzio??? somwhere it Italy?
Roque - I'll have to find one of my Dad's letters from N. Africa
where he writes home: "this place is overrun with Arabs stealing everything!!".
Sgt Leo - I don't know when Dad got his combat boots. The Salerno
pictures show him still in leggings from N. Africa. In
France, he still had the lightweight uniform everybody was issued
for N Africa/ Italy. I guess the Army couldn't keep up with it's
Campaigns. Maybe nobody understood that it gets COLD in Italy
in the mountains in winter and COLD COLD COLD in France!
I have a photo of my father on christmas day 1944 and looks like
he's got a couple of homemade scarfs wrapped around his neck.
I think he was in Alsace.
Clean shirt at Anzio !!! He was right about the Arabs. Anzio was between
Rome and Cassino. Saw the town of Cassino but never got to the top where
the Monastary is. Roque