Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Aid Greek Quake Victims--Sailors from the U.S.S.Salem dish out food to earthquake refugees in Argostolion, largest city in the devastated Greek islands ravaged by the powerful tremors of the past week. An American naval officer who saw the bombed ruins of atom-blasted Nagasaki said Argostolion was almost as completely smashed. The U.S.S. Salem is one of the naval craft of several nations which rushed food, water and drugs to the quake area in a desperate attempt to make order out of chaos.
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Aid Greek Quake Victims--Sailors from the U.S.S.Salem dish out food to earthquake refugees in Argostolion, largest city in the devastated Greek islands ravaged by the powerful tremors of the past week. An American naval officer who saw the bombed ruins of atom-blasted Nagasaki said Argostolion was almost as completely smashed. The U.S.S. Salem is one of the naval craft of several nations which rushed food, water and drugs to the quake area in a desperate attempt to make order out of chaos.
Associated Press · [ca. August 1953]
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[Information from item housing] Earthquakes...Greece August 1953
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