US soldiers watch as a mother bottle-feeds her infant, Naples, Italy, 1943
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Photograph. US soldiers watch as a mother bottle-feeds her infant. Official caption on front: "MM-5-150738." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photo Radioed 12-4-43 / Sig Corps Photo-12-4-43-Italy! GI's aid stork! PFC Hyman Huberman, left, and PFC Sidney Berchofsky, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., members of an M.P. Battalion, watch the Italian mother feed the baby they helped bring into the world in an air radi [sic] shelter in Naples, Italy." Naples, Italy. 4 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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Napoli
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40.833
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14.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Women--Italy
Military police--American--Italy
Infants--Italy
Bottle feeding--Italy
Births--Italian--Italy