Army trucks roll off the ramps of LST's during Allied fighting inNisida, Italy in April 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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459.Photograph. 'File No: 49376 April 15, 1944 Sinews of War Pour into Italy--- Army trucks roll off the ramps of LST's (Landing Ship Tanks) in an interminable stream as material is fed to Allied forces fighting in Italy. White-capped U. S. Navy men sit on their seabags and watch unloading operations at the tiny island of Nisida, half mile off the Gulfo de Pozzuoli, near Naples.' 15 April 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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Nisida, Isola di
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Landing craft--American--Italy
Trucks--American--Italy
Sailors--American--Italy