Title: 423rd Field Artillery Group Aerial Photographs

Date/Date Range :   1945 March-April

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of a number of World War II-era aerial photographs of Bologna, Italy and surrounding areas, taken in March and April 1945 by the U.S. Army's 423rd Field Artillery Group. They show potential targets and the results of artillery shelling by American forces, including destroyed buildings and fields covered with craters.

Call number: MS-3112

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection was donated to the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library by the Center for the Study of War and Society.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], 423rd Field Artillery Group Aerial Photographs, MS-3112. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single oversize folder.

The 423rd Field Artillery Group was a unit of the US Army (5th Army, II Corps) that fought in Italy in 1944 and 1945.

This collection consists of a number of World War II-era aerial photographs of Bologna, Italy and surrounding areas, taken in March and April 1945 by the U.S. Army's 423rd Field Artillery Group. They show potential targets and the results of artillery shelling by American forces, including destroyed buildings and fields covered with craters. Some photographs are marked in red to show important targets, and notes on the back of some photographs indicate the units involved and whether or not important targets were hit. The shells were fired by the "985 FA BN" (Field Artillery Battalion), and the aerial observation conducted by the "423 FA GP AOP" (423rd Field Artillery Group Aerial Observation Post).

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Reconnaissance operations, American.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.