Reporter and US soldiers aboard a Swedish ship, Algiers, Algeria, 1944
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Photograph. Reporter and US soldiers aboard a Swedish ship as it docks. Official caption on front: "MM-44-1155." Official caption on reverse: "Signal Corps photo radioed 20 May / Sig C Photo-5-20-44-Algiers! Reading his first copy of 'Stars and Stripes'. Associated Press correspondent Larry Allen is greeted aboard the exchange liner Gripsholm by A..P. correspondent Joe Dynan along with other members of Allied servicemens press corps. Mr. Dynan was on the Gripsholm's first exchange voyage after being interned in Japan and Mr. Allen has just been repatriated from Germany." Algiers, Algeria. 20 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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Alger
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36.833
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3.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Ocean liners--Swedish--Algeria
Reporters--American--Algeria
Newspapers--Algeria
Reading--Algeria