Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Roach (Cherokee, 1912–1984) served with the Fifth Army during the Italian Campaign, the longest continuous combat and some of the fiercest fighting of World War II.
Allied soldiers push off the beaches of Anzio, liberate Rome and battle through the mountains as the Italian campaign enters its final stages of the war.
From the first landings in Sicily in 1943 to the final battles in the Italian mountains in April 1945, soldiers recount the bloody struggle during a campaign where the Allies invaded Italy after ...