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Object Details

Category: Photographs
Related period: Second World War (production), Second World War (content)
Creator: Rooke (Sgt)
No. 2 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
Production date: 1943-07-09
Materials: whole: Nitrate
Catalogue number: NA 4502
Part of: WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION

Object associations

Associated events

Operation Husky, Allied Invasion of Sicily 1943, Italy, Second World War
Associated themes

British Army 1939-1945
Italy 1939-1945

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