American soldiers with an 800,000,000 candle power searchlight in Italy in December 1944
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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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167.Photograph. '26 Dec 44. 5/MM44-32581. Fifth Army, Monghidoro, Italy. L-R: Pfc. Eugene Knapp, Schnectady, N.Y., and Sgt. Fredrick Helble, Guttenberg, N.J. [New Jersey], Battery B, 360th AAA searchlight Battalion, cleaning 60' lens on 800,000,000 candle power searchlight. Photo by Hartman. 3131 Signal Service Co.' Monghidoro, Italy. 26 December 1944
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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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Monghidoro
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44.217
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11.317
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Searchlights--Italy
Snow--Italy