Salerno Bay, Italy, March 1944. Salerno is a city and comune in Campania (south-western Italy) and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. Operation Avalanche - the main invasion at Salerno by the United States Fifth Army - began on 9 September 1943. The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Loose photos with the Photo Album of Major George, 1939 - 1953. The photos pasted in the album are accessioned separately. These photos show Major Robert Nelson (Bud) George while in the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada in Italy and Shilo, Manitoba as part of the Canadian Army Pacific Force in the summer of 1945. There are also pictures of the Seaforth Company of the 1st Canadian Highland Battalion in Germany.