US tanks encounter concrete barriers near Anzio, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. US tanks encounter concrete barriers as they head inland. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-127." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Radio Photo-1-23-44. New landings by 5th Army! Light tanks [M3 Stuarts] driving inland encounter concrete barriers after 5th Army troops established a beachhead near Anzio, Italy." Anzio, Italy. 23 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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Anzio
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41.450
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12.617
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Tanks (Military science)--American--Italy
Barricades--Italy