New U.S. Cavalry Advance in Italy: A U.S. cavalry detachment of the Allied Fifth Army passes through a shell-torn Italian town. The mounted men are known as Provisional Mounted Reconnaissance troops and were organized early in the Allied campaign in Italy. They have proved effective in destroying German machine gun nests and artillery emplacements inaccessible to motorized forces. January 10, 1943. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).