A photo taken of U.S. Army Private Werner Schmiedel, of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, at a stockade in Rome on December 10, 1944. Schmiedel was the leader of the “Lane Gang”, a group of American and Canadian deserters who terrorized soldiers and civilians alike in war-torn Italy [530 x 594].

A photo taken of U.S. Army Private Werner Schmiedel, of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, at a stockade in Rome on December 10, 1944. Schmiedel was the leader of the “Lane Gang”, a group of American and Canadian deserters who terrorized soldiers and civilians alike in war-torn Italy [530 x 594].

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