Severe damage to German equipment and railroad cars at an Italian railyard after bombings by Allied forces in Lagaro, Italy on 24 November 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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366.Photograph. Severe damage to German equipment and railroad cars at an Italian railyard after bombings by Allied forces. '24 Nov 1944. 5/MM-44-30589. Fifth Army, Lagaro Area, Italy. The railway yards and station near Lagaro, Italy is a shambles of wrecked trains and scattered German supplies, after an air raid which destroyed every piece of rolling stock in the yard and wrecked the entrance to a 12 mile tunnel probably the longest in the world. South African troops are now reopening the tunnel so that supplies can be shipped by rail to their fighting men south of Bologna. Photo by Baker. 3131 Signal Service Co.' Near Lagaro, Italy. 24 November 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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Lagaro
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44.217
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11.167
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Railroad stations--Italy
War damage--Italy