A 96-year-old retired American soldier has managed to make contact with the three Italian children from a photograph taken during world war two, 76 years after they posed with him in the Bologna area of northern Italy.

The search began when Martin Adler asked his daughter Rachelle to try and track down the three children from the picture, taken in the autumn of 1944, and to see if any of them were still alive. "Help me find those three children I met while freeing Italy from the Nazis."