VESUVIUS FROM THE AIR. A Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forfe circles the volcanic plume of smoke and steam rising from the crater of snow-clad Mount Vesuvius in Italy. A major eruption last month caused the destruction of one town and partly destroyed two other towns. The morning after the eruption New Zealand troops on the sth Army front could see great billows of flame-flecked smoke towering skywards, while New Zealanders on the other side of Italy also saw effects of the disturbance. In Bari it literally rained mud. U.S. Office o£ War Information photograph.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24237, 20 April 1944, Page 3
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98VESUVIUS FROM THE AIR. A Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forfe circles the volcanic plume of smoke and steam rising from the crater of snow-clad Mount Vesuvius in Italy. A major eruption last month caused the destruction of one town and partly destroyed two other towns. The morning after the eruption New Zealand troops on the sth Army front could see great billows of flame-flecked smoke towering skywards, while New Zealanders on the other side of Italy also saw effects of the disturbance. In Bari it literally rained mud. U.S. Office o£ War Information photograph. Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24237, 20 April 1944, Page 3
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