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This is a view of the East side of the Corinth canal in Greece. The photograph captured the reopening of the working canal in Greece. Repairing the canal was funded by the American Mission for Aid to Greece.

Dwight Griswold, Ailanos, and Tsaldaris at Ribbon-Cutting for the Corinth Canal

Ailanos (left, holding hat) and Constantine Tsaldaris (right, in white hat, facing away from camera) cut the ribbon held by Dwight Griswold (center), Chief of the American Mission for Aid to Greece, to reopen the Corinth Canal in Greece connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. Harold Holtz, a member of Griswold's staff, stands in the lower left hand corner of the photograph with other unidentified men.