US officer and nurse cutting wedding cake in Algiers, Algeria, 1944
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Photograph. US officer and nurse newlyweds cutting wedding cake Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photo-April 29, 1944 / Algiers. (Story being released to correspondents in this theater, May 4.) Newlyweds Lt. Col. Stewart F. Alexander of Park Ridge, N.J., medical consultant in chemical warfare, and Lt. Col. Bernice Wilbur of Milton, Mass., Director of American Nurses in the North African theater, cutting their wedding cake after their marriage here." Algiers, Algeria. 29 April 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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Alger
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36.833
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3.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military officers--American--Algeria
Women--Military service--Algeria
Weddings--Algeria
Nurses--American--Algeria