VISUAL ACTIVITY Relief Column, Tunisia, North Africa Peter Sanfilippo, a twenty-three year-old private from Brooklyn, New York, who fought in the Tunisian campaign in 1943, painted this column of American soldiers marching toward the front lines to relieve their wounded and exhausted comrades. Sanfilippo wrote that the arrival of a relief column “resurrected” among the “unnerved and wounded” soldiers “the spirit to thrive and . . . persevere into a new day.” Peter Sanfilippo/Veterans History Project, Library of Congress, Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University. READING THE IMAGE: How do the soldiers in the relief column compare with the wounded soldiers they march past? How do the soldiers in the relief column appear to react to their wounded comrades? CONNECTIONS: How did the physical and psychological challenges of combat affect ordinary soldiers and the war effort as a whole?