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SC 374775 - German shell that plowed thru 30 feet of earth and soft stone to block up passageway in the VI Corps headquarters cave, fails to stop work.
Shell landed early this morning and no one was hurt. 18 March, 1944. Nettuno area, Italy. Photographer: Blau, 163rd Signal Photo Co. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
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- 1944
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- Signal Corps Archive from United States
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- Wikimedia Commons
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- photograph
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