Keywords: people indoor Lot-805-35 (26-G-1799): Operation Husky - Invasion of Sicily, Italy, 9 July – August 17, 1943. Coast Guardsman Joseph Edwards, Chief Signalman, had a close shave when a piece of shrapnel from a German bomb went through his cap. He is shown holding the fragment of shrapnel. The Coast Guardsman was on the signal bridge of a transport carrying U.S. Army contingents, one of the ships in the Allied armada invading Sicily, when it was bombed by German planes. U.S. Coast Guard Photograph. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/30). Lot-805-35 (26-G-1799): Operation Husky - Invasion of Sicily, Italy, 9 July – August 17, 1943. Coast Guardsman Joseph Edwards, Chief Signalman, had a close shave when a piece of shrapnel from a German bomb went through his cap. He is shown holding the fragment of shrapnel. The Coast Guardsman was on the signal bridge of a transport carrying U.S. Army contingents, one of the ships in the Allied armada invading Sicily, when it was bombed by German planes. U.S. Coast Guard Photograph. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/30). |