American soldier carrying searchlight components through muddy field in Italy in October 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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343.Photograph. Private Czarnik carrying searchlight materials through muddy field. '24 Oct. 1944. 5/MM-44-5910. Fifth Army, Pietramala Area, Italy. PFC Edward Czarnik, light operator of searchlight No. 5, of Battery B, 351st Searchlight Battalion position near Pietramala carries cans of carbon over muddy and rough road that the searchlight had to travel to reach its present position. The searchlight has candle power of 800,000,000 (artificial moonlight). Photo by Mulcahy. 3131 Signal Service Co.' Pietramala, Italy. 24 October 1944

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$120.00
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Image Information

Donor: 
William Caddell
Accession Number: 
2007.048.343
Date: 
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
US Army
Theater of Service: 
Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO)
Unit: 
Fifth Army
3131st Signal Service Company
351st Antiaircraft Artillery Searchlight Battalion
Campaign / Event: 
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Mud--Italy
Collection Level: 
Signal Corps photographs from the service of William F. Caddell, Sr. taken from the Fall of Rome through the end of the war.
Geography: 
Pietramala
Latitude: 
44.167
Longitude: 
11.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Mud--Italy