STARS AND STRIPES, MEDITERRANEAN ISSUE.
STARS AND STRIPES, MEDITERRANEAN ISSUE.
US Department of Defense, Italy edition: June 1 1944 - November 9th 1944.
Volume 1 numbers 170 to 308. Broadsheet. Folio. The pages slightly browned, with brittle edges. Institutional half cloth, worn.
A fine consecutive run of this important military newspaper, "The Stars and Stripes," issued as a 4pp newspaper, priced at 2 lire, on a daily basis and distributed to the US forces, in this case in the Italian campaign. The subject matter of the paper covered both the latest war news but also when the war news was slack, it covered domestic American sports results and news from back home. It provided important information on the state of the war, and was the only way that troops on the front line would ever know what was happening around the world on the various fronts.
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STARS AND STRIPES, MEDITERRANEAN ISSUE.
US Department of Defense, Italy edition: June 1 1944 - November 9th 1944.
Volume 1 numbers 170 to 308. Broadsheet. Folio. The pages slightly browned, with brittle edges. Institutional half cloth, worn.
A fine consecutive run of this important military newspaper, "The Stars and Stripes," issued as a 4pp newspaper, priced at 2 lire, on a daily basis and distributed to the US forces, in this case in the Italian campaign. The subject matter of the paper covered both the latest war news but also when the war news was slack, it covered domestic American sports results and news from back home. It provided important information on the state of the war, and was the only way that troops on the front line would ever know what was happening around the world on the various fronts.
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