Pisa Cathedral escapes war damage.

Pisa Cathedral escapes war damage. The baptistry behind the Cathedral of Pisa stands unharmed despite heavy bombing of the Italian railroad center by planes of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces training their sights on Nazi military installations in Northern Italy. The Allied Fifth Army under Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark drove the Nazis from the area July 19, 1944, but fierce fighting continued in that part of Pisa lying on the north bank of the Arno river.