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Italian women with rifles and captured German stick grenades at Massa Lombarda, Italy. DA-03285-F

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Italian (Partisini?/Partisni?) women, with rifles and captured German stick grenades, talking with New Zealand troops at Massa Lombarda, Italy, after the town fell to New Zealand troops. Shows soldiers A Burton of Wellington and Frank Stewart of Dunedin.

Photograph taken circa 13 April 1945 by George Frederick Kaye.

Note on back of file print reads: "Tough looking Partisini? Partisni? women...."


Reference Number:DA-03285-F:
Alexander Turnbull Library.
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