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Paestum Neptune

Monday, September 3, 2018 by Sarah Sundin

Men of the Headquarters Company, 480th Port Battalion (an African-American unit) in makeshift Fifth Army office in ancient Temple of Neptune in Paestum, Italy, 22 September 1943; At desk, front to rear: Sgts. James Shellman, Gilbert A. Terry, John W. Phoenix, Curtis A. Richardson, and Leslie B. Wood. In front of desk, front to rear: T/Sgt. Gordon A. Scott, M/Sgt. Walter C. Jackson, Sgt. David D. Jones, and WO Carlyle M. Tucker (US National Archives: 111-SC-181588)

Men of the Headquarters Company, 480th Port Battalion (an African-American unit) in makeshift Fifth Army office in ancient Temple of Neptune in Paestum, Italy, 22 September 1943; At desk, front to rear: Sgts. James Shellman, Gilbert A. Terry, John W. Phoenix, Curtis A. Richardson, and Leslie B. Wood. In front of desk, front to rear: T/Sgt. Gordon A. Scott, M/Sgt. Walter C. Jackson, Sgt. David D. Jones, and WO Carlyle M. Tucker (US National Archives: 111-SC-181588)

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