Pneumatic hammer used during road construction in Italy in November 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corp photograph, Gift in Memory of William F. Caddell, Sr., from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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514. Photograph. '21 Nov 44. 5/MM-44-30340. Fifth Army, South of Bologna, Italy. Pneumatic hammers are also used as well as sledge hammers, to break rock before it is used for repairing and rebuilding roads washed away by heavy rains. This soldier of the 19th Engineers of the Fifth Army is using the hammer on some of the heavier rock. Photo by Mason. 3131 Signal Service Co.' South of Bologna, Italy. 21 November 1944
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$120.00
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Signal Corps photographs from the service of William F. Caddell, Sr. taken from the Fall of Rome through the end of the war.
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Bologna
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44.483
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11.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Hammers--Italy
Road construction--Italy
Soldiers--American--Italy