Wounded in Invasion of Sicily
Coast Guardsman Charles Sheris has a big grin despite shrapnel wounds received when German bombers attacked a Coast Guard-manned transport carrying soldiers for the invasion of Gela, Sicily. Sheris was on deck when the JU-88's attacked. His home is at 437 Franklin St., Port Washington Wisconsin.
- Date
- 1943-11-02
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,444 × 6,093 pixels
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