American tank destroyer crew resting near a train car, Italy, 1943
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Photograph. American tank destroyer crew resting near a train car. Official caption on front: "MM-5-150443." Official caption on reverse: "Signal Corps Photo 11-21-43 / Sig Corps Photo-11-21-43-Italy! Drying out near the front, members of a tank destroyer battalion gratefully sit out in the sun eating chow. Personal items hang from the windows of a bombed Italian railway car which the soldiers took over for shelter from the rains." Italy. 21 November 1943
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From the service of Brigadier General Terence John Tully, a West Point graduate, Signal Officer during the African landings, Chief Signal Officer, Allied Force Headquarters Africa/Italy for all Mediterranean operations. Tully served with the Signal Corps in Italy and North Africa documenting the 5th Army specifically. Later he was Commander of Camp Crowder, Missouri.
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Italia
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42.833
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12.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Italy
Clotheslines--Italy
Railroad tracks--Italy
Railroad cars--Italian--Italy
War damage--Italy
Eating & drinking--Italy
Rest periods--Italy