Abandoned German train in Italian countryside, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Captured German train, abandoned in Italian countryside, full of German loot; two people on bicycles in road next to train. Official Caption: [caption missing] "... a half mile long train stretches into the distance out- [caption missing] , its cars laden with German plunder which the enemy [caption missing] to abandon due to the suddenness of his collapse. 6843." Italy. 1945
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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.
Geography:
Italia
Latitude:
42.833
Longitude:
12.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bicycles & tricycles--Italy
Mountains--Italy
Railroad trains--German--Italy
Abandoned vehicles--Italy
Confiscations--Italy