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Ardizzone records the trip in his diary on 10 August 1943- ' ...Geoffrey (Keating), Sgt. Jordan and I go forward. Stop at a front-line village while I make notes of women peeping at us through Venetian blinds.' An ink s Art.IWMARTLD3390

Ardizzone recorded this event in his diary on 21 October 1944- ' Take the day off and go...by the coast road to Cesenatico, a pretty village with a canal and a basin and a charming little 19th-cent. opera house. Watch p Art.IWMARTLD4780

Ardizzone travelled to Germany to join the British Army in February 1945. His diary entries record the effect of the war on the civilian population- 9th April 1945, '...inhabitants so English-looking and frightened-look Art.IWMARTLD5261

Ardizzone departed Rome for Florence on 6 January 1945. After a day there, he moved forward into the mountains visiting Castel del Rio on the way. He records this in his diary on 10 January 1945- 'Through Castel del Rio Art.IWMARTLD4930

Rovert C Mahaffey of Lima Ohio and Chicago, now a Lieutenant attached to the Paris headquarters of the American Red Cross. He is seen here at London headquarters en route to his new post of duty. For ten years past he has been a well known traveller and newspaper writer

Ardizzone recollects his arrival in Cairo in the introduction to his 'Diary of a War Artist' (1974)- 'On arrival in Cairo, I could go where I liked and draw what I liked. I could have travelled from Abyssinia to Persia. Art.IWMARTLD2592

An RAF Morris LRC (light reconnaissance car) alongside a bullock cart on an airfield in the Azores, January 1944. TR1496

The Photographic Eyes of the Fleet. 4 March 1943, Royal Naval Air Station, Stretton, Lancs, Very Little Is Heard of the Photographers Who Fly in Naval Aircraft To Obtain Records of Enemy Activities, and the Res A15144

A Ditched Truck in the Plain beyond Rimini Art.IWMARTLD4793

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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