Photograph of a German propaganda leaflet reading'The Girl You Left Behind... Poor little Joan she is still thinking of Bob...' taken on 3 May 1944 in Italy.

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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62.Photograph. Photograph of a German propaganda leaflet with image of a young woman lying on a bed with a business man chariature and the text: 'The Girl You Left Behind... Poor little Joan she is still thinking of Bob...' '13 May 1944. MM-5-44-4964. Fifth Army, Anzio Area, Italy. Front view of a propaganda leaflet dropped by Germans on American and British troops on the Anzio beachhead. Photo by Blau. 163rd Signal Photo Company.' Anzio, Italy. 13 May 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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Anzio
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41.450
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12.617
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Propaganda--German--Italy
Leaflets--German--Italy