Picture No | 10219987 |
Date | 1943 |
Description | Laundry on an Italian Submarine; Second World War 1943 |
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The crew of an Italian submarine airing their blankets and bedding on arrival at Malta in 1943. When Italy fell that year, much of the Italian fleet attempted to reach Allied bases to surrender their vessels to the Allies, rather than give them to the Germans.
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Source | Photograph in 'The Sphere', 16 October 1943, page 87 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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