A US servicemen standing in a field with a crash-landed British Spitfire at Loiano, Italy on 22 November 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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431.Photograph. US servicemen standing in field with crash-landed British Spitfire. '22 Nov. 1944. 5/MM-44-30168. Fifth Army Loiano Area, Italy. The Royal Air Force Spitfire which Flight Sgt. William Henry Bundock, Colchester Essex, England, was forced to crash land in a field near Loiano, Italy, due to a ruptured oil line. Flight Sgt. Bundock received only a scratched hand and a small scratch on the face. Sgt. Clifford Caole of Trinity, N.C. [North Carolina] saw the plane coming in, while working on a road detail nearby. He secured the nearest first aid kit and ran in the direction of the plane, which crashed about 200 yards from where he was working. Photo by Wiedenmayer. 3131 Signal Service Co.' Loiano Area, Italy. 22 November 1944
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Signal Corps photographs from the service of William F. Caddell, Sr. taken from the Fall of Rome through the end of the war.
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Loiano
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44.267
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11.317
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