General Eisenhower attending baseball game with Mayor Laguardia, New York City, June 1945
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Photograph. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--Eisenhower Sees Baseball Game--General of the Army Dwight D. 'Ike' Eisenhower sits beside New York Mayor Fiorello H. Laguardia (second from right) to watch a baseball game during New York's day of welcome to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, on June 19. At a dinner in his honor, General Eisenhower called on the people of the United States to apply themselves as energetically to the problems of peace as they had to those of war lest civilization itself be destroyed.--International news photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(List A out). 6933."New York, New York. 29 June 1945
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06/29/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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New York
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40.700
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-74.000
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Generals--American--New York
Mayors--American--New York
Sports spectators-- New York
Baseball--New York