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All Through The Italian Campaign The Germans Used Every Type Of Mine - With The Infantry Went The Engineers With Their Mine-Detectors.
All Through The Italian Campaign The Germans Used Every Type Of Mine - With The Infantry Went The Engineers With Their Mine-Detectors.
All Through The Italian Campaign The Germans Used Every Type Of Mine - With The Infantry Went The Engineers With Their Mine-Detectors.
Artist Rudolph Charles von Ripper (American, b. Austria, 1905 - 1960)

All Through The Italian Campaign The Germans Used Every Type Of Mine - With The Infantry Went The Engineers With Their Mine-Detectors.

Date1947
MediumEtching/aquatint
DimensionsSheet: 16 1/2 × 13 1/4 in. (41.9 × 33.7 cm)
Platemark: 9 15/16 × 7 13/16 in. (25.2 × 19.8 cm)
Credit LineGeorgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Michael T. Ricker
Object number2022.183.25
To Slow Down Our Advance The Krauts Blew All The Bridges; Within A Few Hours The Engineers Replaced Them With Bailey Bridges. We Crossed The Calore River At Benevento.
To Slow Down Our Advance The Krauts Blew All The Bridges; Within A Few Hours The Engineers Replaced Them With Bailey Bridges. We Crossed The Calore River At Benevento.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
The Little Town Of San Vittore, Our First Obstacle In The Advance Toward Cassino, Was Stubbonly Defended And We Had To Fight From House To House To Clear the Germans Out Of Its Ruins.
The Little Town Of San Vittore, Our First Obstacle In The Advance Toward Cassino, Was Stubbonly Defended And We Had To Fight From House To House To Clear the Germans Out Of Its Ruins.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
We Came Upon The First Case Of Atrocities Committed By The Germans In And Around Caiazzo. In The Nearby Woods We Found The Bodies Of Four Girls, Who Had Been Raped And Then Beaten And Kicked To Death.
We Came Upon The First Case Of Atrocities Committed By The Germans In And Around Caiazzo. In The Nearby Woods We Found The Bodies Of Four Girls, Who Had Been Raped And Then Beaten And Kicked To Death.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
From The Mountain Above San Pietro One Could Look Down Upon San Vittore, Cervaro, Cassino - The German Defense Line Blocking The Way To Rome. We Went Into The Attack - The Long And Bloody Battle Of Cassino Was On.
From The Mountain Above San Pietro One Could Look Down Upon San Vittore, Cervaro, Cassino - The German Defense Line Blocking The Way To Rome. We Went Into The Attack - The Long And Bloody Battle Of Cassino Was On.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
The White And Silvery Clouds Of The Smoke Screens On The Anzio Beachhead Helped To Protect Us From The Inquisitve Eyes Of The Germans.
The White And Silvery Clouds Of The Smoke Screens On The Anzio Beachhead Helped To Protect Us From The Inquisitve Eyes Of The Germans.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
All Along The Italian Peninsula, We Crossed Streams Of Refugees, Fleeing From The Danger Of Battle With Their Most Precious Belongings.
All Along The Italian Peninsula, We Crossed Streams Of Refugees, Fleeing From The Danger Of Battle With Their Most Precious Belongings.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
At Dawn Our Patrols Went Out To Look For The Enemy, Feel Out His Positions. One Never Knew If Death Were Not Lurking Behind The Walls Of The Wrecked Houses.
At Dawn Our Patrols Went Out To Look For The Enemy, Feel Out His Positions. One Never Knew If Death Were Not Lurking Behind The Walls Of The Wrecked Houses.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
Our Supremacy In Artilley Was One Of Our Strongest Point During The Whole Campaign. On The Beachhead We Concentrated Large Number Of Guns.
Our Supremacy In Artilley Was One Of Our Strongest Point During The Whole Campaign. On The Beachhead We Concentrated Large Number Of Guns.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
Our Guns Were Pointing North, Our Eyes Were Looking North Toward The Plain Of The Po Valley... We Were Waiting For Spring.. Spring Which Would - And Which Did - Bring The Final Battle, The Big Push North, And The German Defeat.
Our Guns Were Pointing North, Our Eyes Were Looking North Toward The Plain Of The Po Valley... We Were Waiting For Spring.. Spring Which Would - And Which Did - Bring The Final Battle, The Big Push North, And The German Defeat.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
In The Last Days Of April 1944 Came The Signal For The Attack - After Hard Fighting We Broke The German Resistance And The Second Big Push Was On.
In The Last Days Of April 1944 Came The Signal For The Attack - After Hard Fighting We Broke The German Resistance And The Second Big Push Was On.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
Proof For Etching #23 - In The Last Days Of April 1944 Came The Signal For The Attack - After Hard Fighting We Broke The German Resistance And The Second Big Push Was On.
Proof For Etching #23 - In The Last Days Of April 1944 Came The Signal For The Attack - After Hard Fighting We Broke The German Resistance And The Second Big Push Was On.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1946
After The Long Push Up The Coast And After We Broke Through The Gothic Line, We Were Bogged Down By Winter Conditions In The Apennine Mountains Along Bologna, Along Highway 65.
After The Long Push Up The Coast And After We Broke Through The Gothic Line, We Were Bogged Down By Winter Conditions In The Apennine Mountains Along Bologna, Along Highway 65.
Rudolph Charles von Ripper
1947
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