Mission Accomplished: A 1945 GI Souvenir of the War in Africa, Sicily, and Italy

By Todd DePastino

I thought I knew most of the little books, pamphlets, newspapers, and guides the U.S. Army produced for its troops during World War II. But Navy Corpsman veteran Michelle Wilcox gave me one I’d never seen before.

Michelle  recently discovered it among the belongings of her late father, a World War II veteran who served in the Mediterranean Theater.

The cover caught my…