American ambulance at a medical evacuation camp, Italy, 1943
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Photograph. American ambulance at a medical evacuation camp. Official caption on front: "MM-5-150328." Official caption on reverse: "Sig. Corps Radioed-11-10-43 / Saving lives at the Italian front! (No. 4 of 6 pix). Carrying wounded soldiers an ambulance arrives at a collecting point just back of the front lines. Here the wounded are checked. Operations will be performed if urgent, otherwise casualties are evacuated to a hospital further back for treatment." Italy. 10 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
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Ambulances--American--Italy
Military hospitals--Italy
Medical personnel--American--Italy
Medical aspects of war--Italy