Rome, at dawn. American officer Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the US Fifth Army, is photographed on the outskirts of the city, holding a sign with the four letters he so deeply distressed. The photo will go viral. A sniper attempts to shoot the American officer but hits the sign behind him. The sign is seized and transported to the United States, where it can still be visited today, at the Citadel Military School in South Carolina, with its two bullet holes in the letter “O.”
