Underneath Dropping Bombs
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Underneath Dropping Bombs

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Photograph

Underneath Dropping Bombs

September 1943
Gelatin silver print
19.5 x 24.0 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso (printed): 2000
From: Public Relations Officer U.S. Coast Guard Washington, D.C.
Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo
Underneath Dropping Bombs
U.S. Coast Guardsmen and Navy beach battalion men are shown hugging the shaking beach at Paesternum, just south of Salerno, as a Nazi bomber unloads on them. In the background of the picture - one of the most outstanding of the war - debris from a bomb hit can be seen in the air. Coast Guardsmen said this was much worse than the Sicilian and North African invasions, in which...
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