Italian woman sits outside in a bomb-damaged yard, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. Italian woman sits outside sewing in a bomb-damaged yard. Drying laundry hung up behind her. Official caption on front: "MM-5-152804." Official caption on reverse: "Sig. Corps Radio Photo-1-18-44 / Italy! In the wake of the war. An Italian grandmother sits amid the uncleared ruins of her garden in Mignano, mending cloths for the family." 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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Older people--Italy
Sewing--Italy
War damage--Italy