US Secretary of War signs the register at a field hospital, Cecina, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. US Secretary of War signs the register at a field hospital. Official caption on reverse: "6 July 1944 MM-5-44-7381 / Fifth Army, Italy / Maj. John O. McNeil of 8th Evac. Hospital, has Sec. of War, Mr. Henry L. Stimson sign register at hospital. Photo by Walden / 163rd Signal Photo Co." Likely Cecina, Italy. 6 July 1944
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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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Cecina
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43.317
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10.517
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