Elderly Italian man with Italian child at Christmas Party in Italy provided by the Allied Military Government in 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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"25 Dec 44. 5/MM-44-32352. Fifth Army, Scarperia Area, Italy. This elderly man looked cold, so a soldier invited him to the party. He was given all the hot chocolate he could drink, at the Christmas Party given for Italian children by the A.M.G. [Allied Military Government] Here the Italian civilian is giving hot chocolate to one of the children at the party. Photo by Levine. 3131 Signal Service Co." Scarperia Area, Italy. 25 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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Scarperia
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44.000
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11.350
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Eating & drinking--Italy