Allied Control Commission in Berlin, Germany, 5 June 1945

Description: 

Photograph. American, British, French, and Russian representatives sitting and standing at the first meeting of the Allied Control Commission. Official Caption: “Rome, 6/16/45--Allied control group--This is a scene of the first meeting of the Allied Control Commission in Berlin June 5, 1945. Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower represented the United States, Marshal Gregory Zhukov, Russia; Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, Great Britain, and Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, France. The commission decided on the joint policing of the Berlin area by the four powers, the division of Germany into four occupational zones and the re-establishment of Germany’s 1937 borders.--U.S. Signal Corps photo. Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List out) 6739.” Berlin, Germany. 5 June 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.738
Date: 
06/05/1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
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Unit: 
Campaign / Event: 
Occupation of Europe (1945-55)
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Topical Subjects: 
Meetings--Germany
Military officers
Collection Level: 
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: 
Berlin
Latitude: 
52.517
Longitude: 
13.400
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Meetings--Germany
Military officers