Scouts peer over a rocky hillside at Cassino, Italy, 1944
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Photograph. Scouts peer over a rocky hillside at the distant town of Cassino. Official caption on front: "MM-5-152809." Official caption on reverse: "Sig. Corps Radio Photo-1-18-44 / Italy! Looking toward Cassino, a key mountain stronghold obstructing the Allied drive toward Rome, advance American scouts gaze at the stubbornly defended town on which American and French forces are closing in." Italy. 18 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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Montecassino, Abbazia di
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41.483
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13.800
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Military scouts--American--Italy
Military reconnaissance--American--Italy