Corporal Roscoe Murray makes a plate from a half-tone negative for 'The Buffalo', weekly paper of the 92nd Infantry Division in Viareggio, Italy on 5 December 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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545.Photograph. African-American serviceman Murray makes a plate from a half-tone negative for 'The Buffalo', weekly paper of the 92nd Infantry Division. '5/MM-44-31078. Fifth Army, Via Reggio, Italy. Cpl. Roscoe Murray, Augusta, Ga. [Georgia], makes a plate from a half-tone negative for 'The Buffalo', weekly paper of the 92nd Division. That a division paper such as this should have the facilities to publish an(d) 8 page weekly with illustrations is astounding in view of the fact that most division papers are limited to mimeograph sheets alone. Photo by Bull. 196th Signal Photo Co.' Via Reggio, Italy. 5 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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Viareggio
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10.233
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Printing industry--Italy
Newspapers--Italy
Soldiers--American--Italy