An Italian family struggles for existence on the outskirts of the battle lines near Anzio in March 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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"File No: OOR-58430 March 4, 1944 Small Farm, Anzio As patient and hardworking as their beasts of burden, members of this Italian family continue the struggle for existence on the outskirts of the battle lines near Anzio. The women of the families inside the battle lines are in many cases 'taking in laundry' from Allied soldiers." Italy. 4 March 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Anzio
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41.450
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12.617
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Cattle--Italy
Livestock--Italy
Families--Italian--Italy