US artillery firing on enemy positions, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. View from a hillside at US artillery firing on enemy positions in a valley. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-616." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Radio Photo-2-15-44 / At dusk, 155mm 'Long Toms' of an American artillery battalion fire a volley of shells into German positions." Italy. 15 February 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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Italia
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42.833
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12.833
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Batteries (Weaponry)--Italy
Sunrises & sunsets--Italy