Wounded US soldier is driven to an aid station, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. Wounded US soldier on a litter is driven to an aid station. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-5735." Official caption on reverse: "Signal Corps photo 27 May 1944 (Italy) No time to lose! Within this Jeep one of the many small dramas of the war is being enacted. On the stretcher is seriously wounded soldier who fell in the beachhead struggle. A medical-aid man is giving him blood-plasma, fighting to keep him alive while the driver moved the Jeep slowly and carefully on the way to a rear medical station. The scene is near [the rest is cut off]." Italy. 27 May 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Italy
War damage--Italy
War casualties--Italy
Medical aspects of war--Italy
Blood transfusions--Italy
Jeep automobiles--American--Italy
Medical personnel--American--Italy