Italian and U.S. Soldiers accepted the challenge of earning the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge at various locations ...
Maria Levi did not carry a rifle. She carried pasta. After an Allied prisoner of war escaped from an Italian camp in September 1943, Levi waded barefoot across a river with a pot balanced on her head ...
For four grueling days, U.S. and Italian soldiers operated under German standards to earn a foreign military badge few U.S.