World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis address crowd of Fifth Army soldiers in Italy September 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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272.Photograph. '9 Sep 44. MM-5-44-10597. Fifth Army, Tavernelle Area, Italy. S/Sgt. Joe Louis, world heavyweight champion addresses the crowd which came to see boxing exhibition which he put on with S/Sgt. Buddy Buford, 450th A.A. Battalion, as part of the 'Salerno Day' show held at Fifth Army Headquarters to commemorate the landings on Italy. Photo by Thomas. 3131 Signal Service Co.' Tavernelle Area, Italy. 9 September 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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Tavarnelle Val di Pesa
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43.550
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11.183
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Boxers (Sports)--Italy
Boxing--Italy
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