The Allies had control of the air over Monte Cassino, so we didn’t need to disperse our ambulances. John Leinbach is having a smoke and a cup of tea while waiting. The tea water is boiling, desert style, in a well-blackened number ten can over a “desert stove” (right foreground). The stove is made of a cut off flimsy tin with gasoline soaked sand in the bottom.

Location: Presenzano.