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| Northampton-class cruiser USS Chester in Naples harbor, Italy during her shakedown cruise, 1930. | Scuttled minesweeper, Naples, Italy, Oct 1943 |
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| Gloire, Naples, Italy, 1944; her sailors were saluting King George VI as the vessel he was aboard passed by | Darkened sky near Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Italy, Mar 1944 |
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| Mount Vesuvius erupting, Naples, Italy, Mar 1944 | Mt. Vesuvius spewing ash into the sky, erupting as a U.S. Army jeep speeds by shortly after the arrival of the Allied forces in Naples, Italy, late March 1944. |
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| Stars and Stripes correspondent and cartoonist Bill Mauldin at the wheel of his assigned Jeep accompanied by fellow illustrator Gregor Duncan, Naples, Italy, Mar 1944 | German prisoners-of-war captured at Anzio are offloaded from LST-351 at Naples, Italy in early 1944. |
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