US soldier tests field telephone, Demanio, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. US soldier tests field telephone on a snowy roadside. Official caption on front: "MM-5-152209." Official caption on reverse: "Sig. Corps radio photo-1-5-44 / Italy! Heavy snow storm at Italian Front fails to hamper communications. Pvt. Victor C Russo, of New Haven, Conn, tests telephone after having repaired telephone line broken by snow and wind storm near Demanio, Italy." Demanio, Italy. 5 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.
Geography:
Demanio, Monte
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40.667
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14.667
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Snow--Italy
Telephones--Italy
Testing--Italy