Before D-Day, Before Today's United Nations

At Last, the  History that Was Never Told

The Allied landing in Italy, fought by the most international coalition ever assembled, marked the first campaign in Nazi-occupied Europe. Yet despite its scale and sacrifice, historians have come to call it the Forgotten Campaign. Now, in the first European capital the Allies helped to free, a permanent museum will plant the flag of freedom once more and finally honor their legacy in the heart of Rome.

In the Italian campaign, we had demonstrated as never before how a polyglot army could be welded into a team of allies with the strength and unity and determination to prevail over formidable odds.

General Mark W. Clark

Commander of the U.S. 5th Army