Pisa was liberated on 2 September by the Fifth United States Army. The tower still leaning as of old, was undamaged in the fight to take the historic city.

Chrome plated Zippo with small U.S. Army Great Seal insignia on the front and the «leaning tower» of Pisa on the other side with the name «B. D. Willis» and «Pisa 1945» engraved.