Second World War veteran reunited with Italians he saved as children

Martin Adler with the siblings he met during the war (Antonio Calanni/AP)

An American soldier has been reunited with three Italians he is credited with saving during the Second World War when they were young children.

For more than seven decades, Martin Adler treasured a black-and-white photo of himself as a young American soldier with a broad smile with three impeccably dressed Italian children he met as the Nazis retreated northwards in 1944.