Infantrymen versus Tiger tanks

5th December 1943: An infantry soldier writes home with a graphic account of a battle in Italy earlier in the year, a wounded survivor who only just escaped

The Volturno River 12 - 16 October 1943: Infantry of B Company 1/5th Queen's Regiment practise using collapsible boats in a farmyard before the assault on the Volturno

The campaign in Italy was characterised by assaults across the numerous rivers that lay in the path of the Allies moving north, or in assaults for hilltop and mountaintop positions. At the…