Allied Generals Walker, Saraev, and Davidson meeting in New York City, 1945

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Photograph. Group portrait of U.S. Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker, Russian Major General Ilia M. Saraev, and British Major General H. F. N. Davidson. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--Allied Generals meet in New York--Among the military figures at a rally in New York in honor of the soldiers of the United Nations were (L to R): Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker, Commander of the 20th Corps, U.S. Third Army; Major General Ilia M. Saraev, Military Attache of the Soviet Union, and Major General H. F. N. Davidson, Deputy Commander of the British Army Staff. The rally was sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc. a group dedicated to establishing better relations between the two countries.--Wide world photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out). 6989."”New York, New York. 3 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.324
Date: 
07/03/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Generals--American--New York
Generals--British--New York
Generals--Russian--New York
Group portraits--New York
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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: 
New York
Latitude: 
40.700
Longitude: 
-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Generals--American--New York
Generals--British--New York
Generals--Russian--New York
Group portraits--New York