Italian laundress takes clothes from American women military personnel, Venafro, Italy, 1943
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Photograph. Italian laundress takes clothes from American women military personnel. Official caption on front: "MM-5-150855." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photo radioed 12-7-43 / Sig Corps Photo 12-10-43-Italy! A bare-footed, mud-stained. Italian laundry woman, makes the rounds at an American Field Hospital in the Venefro [sic] sector and collects some laundry from Miss Clementine Miller, of Columbus, Ind., a Red Cross worker. Lt. Col. Bernice Wilber, Chief of Nurses in the North African Theater of Operations looks on." Venafro, Italy. 10 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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Venafro
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41.483
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14.033
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Laundresses--Italy
Laundry--Italy
Children--Italy
Women--Military service--Italy