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26-G-1800: Operation Husky, July-August 1943

26-G-1800: Operation Husky - Invasion of Sicily, Italy, July-August 1943. Coast Guardsman Carl Solomon, GM3c, would have been a casualty if he had been in his sack when German planes attacked his ship off Sicily. Here he shows the holes made in his blanket by enemy bomb fragments. U.S. Coast Guard Photograph. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. Courtesy of the Library of Congress: Lot-805. (2015/10/30).
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Caption: Operation Husky, Italy, July-August 1943. Coast Guardsman Carl Solomon, GM3c, would have been a casualty if he had been in his sack when German planes attacked his ship off Sicily. Here he shows the holes made in his blanket by enemy bomb fragments. U.S. Coast Guard Photograph. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. Courtesy of the Library of Congress: Lot-805. (2015/10/30).
Accession #: 26-G-1800
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