Workmen in Naples, Italy, unload sacks of white flour from a U.S. Liberty ship into an Allied Military Government truck, providing food and other supplies to the civilian populace in liberated territory. – Vintage Photograph

Workmen in Naples, Italy, unload sacks of white flour from a U.S. Liberty ship into an Allied Military Government truck, providing food and other supplies to the civilian populace in liberated territory.Workmen in Naples, Italy, unload sacks of white flour from a U.S. Liberty ship into an Allied Military Government truck, providing food and other supplies to the civilian populace in liberated territory.

Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm

IMS SKU: SCAN-IMS-04896088

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OCR computer generated text:

U.S.A. AMC C

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ET = 41 allier IMPORTANT NOT FOR USE IN WESTERN HEMISP-ERE OR BRITISH ISLES U.S. LIBERTY SHIPS BRING FOOD TO LIBERATED ITALIAN CITY Italian workmen on the docks of Naples, Italy, unload sacks of white flour from a U.S. Liberty ship into an Allied Military Government truck. The AMG, in cooperation with local Italian officials, distributes food and other supplies to the civilian populace in liberated territory. Harbor installations destroyed by the Germans at Naples were repaired so effectively that two months after the city’s liberation, all records for gross tonnage handled in the harbor were broken. The Germans seized or destroyed 90 per cent of Naples’ food supplies, and the city was threatened with starvation before it was liberated by the Allied Fifth Army on Oct. 1, 1943. SERVICED BY NEW YORK TO LIST A. APPROVED BY APPROPRIATE U.S. AUTHORITY 19362-FO