US soldier tests a switchboard frame, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. US soldier tests a switchboard frame. Official caption on front: "MM-5-102683." Official caption on reverse: "4 Jan 1944 / MM-5-102683 / Caserta Area, Italy / T/3 Lawrence Peterson, Co. 'B', 63rd Signal Battalion, of 62, 70th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., tests on a switchboard frame. Photo by Greenhaus / 163rd Signal Photo Co." Caserta, Italy. 4 January 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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Caserta
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41.067
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14.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Italy
Switchboards--Italy
Telephones--Italy
Communication facilities--Italy