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for album and loose photographs of Johnny Stuckey
album and loose photographs of Johnny Stuckey
Creator
Unknown
Date1942
MediumAlbum: 191 gelatin silver prints, 4 loose gelatin silver prints, 3 epaulettes, discharge papers
Dimensions33cm x 26cm (12.99 x 10.24 inches)
Credit LineAnonymous gift, 2020
Object number2021/271
ProvenanceUS WW2 Army album and loose photographs of Johnny Stuckey who served in the 713th Railway Operation Battalion in North Africa (Tunisia), Italy, France and the Rhineland. Photographs - which are not in order - document his training at Fort Dix (New Jersey) and transfer to North Africa and then Europe. Of note are images of US and European railways (locomotives, turntables, gun carriages), fellow servicemen both aboard ship and sightseeing in Rome and Naples and of soldiers in swim suits diving off the ramp of a Landing Craft, Tank.
Ephemera includes postcards of Marseille, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and Stuckey's Honourable Discharge papers.
Includes two very rare shots of an Italian M43 assault tank and a German Selbstfahrlafette (Baustab Becker).
LocationNot currently on display
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