Ardizzone records his trip to Reggio in his diary on 3 September 1943- ' I make friends with an R.E. Major whose vehicles are aboard the L.C.M. He drives me to Reggio. A wretched town, much bombed and without the charm Art.IWMARTLD3453
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Ardizzone records his trip to Reggio in his diary on 3 September 1943: ' I make friends with an R.E. Major whose
vehicles are aboard the L.C.M. He drives me to Reggio. A wretched town, much bombed and without the charm of Messina. A desolation of
twisted shutters and broken wire. Only the riff-raff left and they, with the soldiers, looting the town.' (IWM LD 7580
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image: a view down the length of a street bordered by three-storey, typically Italian looking buildings. In the left
foreground a British soldier is leaning into the damaged window of a building, while another British soldier is carrying some loot away
from the building in the right foreground. In the middle ground to the left, four civilians are carrying large sacks of loot on their backs
and are heading left around the street corner.
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