Italian girl sewing in a bomb-damaged house, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. Young Italian girl in ragged clothes sits on a rock sewing inside a roofless bomb-damaged house. Official caption on front: "MM-5-152803." Official caption on reverse: "Sig. Corps Radio Photo-1-18-44 / Italy! No childhood for her. Sitting in the yard of her home in Mignano, still showing the affects of the war that has passed toward Rome, this young Italian girl, called Margherita, is repairing family garments." Mignano, Italy. 18 January 1944
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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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Mignano Monte Lungo
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41.383
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13.967
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Girls--Italy
Sewing--Italy
War damage--Italy