Lt General Lucian Truscott, commanding general of the US Fifth Army in Italy, inspects African-American troops of the 92nd Infantry Division after they threw back a German attack in the hills north of Viareggio, Italy in 1944.

Caption     Lt General Lucian Truscott, commanding general of the US Fifth Army in Italy, inspects African-American troops of the 92nd Infantry Division after they threw back a German attack in the hills north of Viareggio, Italy in 1944. ww2dbase
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1. Anonymous says:
21 May 2019 08:30:28 AM

Mark Clark was CO of the Fifth Army. Truscott was CO of VI Corps.
2. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
21 May 2019 08:33:38 PM

Anonymous (above):
Lucien Truscott was given command of Fifth Army in Dec 1944 when Mark Clark assumed command of the 15th Army Group. This photo was taken after those reassignments at a time when Truscott was the commanding general of the US Fifth Army in Italy.

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