45th Clearing Station

Photograph

Oklahoma National Guard Museum

Name/Title

45th Clearing Station

Entry/Object ID

1979.081.543

Description

Negative of soldiers clearing a dud artillery shell

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Negative

Subject Place

Country

Italy

Region

Central Europe

Continent

Europe

Context

45th Division News Vol. IV No. 31 "Handling the 100-pounder as easily as a can of SPAM, Marvin Sharpe (Jamestown, Tennessee) examines the Jerry bomb dud he and his bomb disposal crew have removed from the Clearing Company area. The dud was there before the medics moved in. in excavating one of these babies, the men work in the hole one at a time, because, as Sharpe puts it "it only takes one little slip...""

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

George F. Tapscott

Role

Photographer

Date made

Feb 22, 1944

Time Period

20th Century, World War Two

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Negative, Sheet Film

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Negative

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Soldiers, Shells (Ammunition), Military vehicles, Tents