President Franklin Roosevelt in Castelvetrano, Sicily, 1943
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Photograph. President Franklin Roosevelt greets a GI. Official caption on front: "MM-HAR-43-5233." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photoradioed 12-10-43 / Sig Corps Photo-12-10-43-President in Sicily: President Roosevelt pins the Distinguished Service Cross on the tunic of Lt. Col. J. B. Crawford in a ceremony at Castelvetrano, Sicily, where the President stopped following his historic conferences." Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy. 10 December 1943
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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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Castelvetrano
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37.683
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12.783
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