American serviceman S.L. Anderson counting gold bars, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. American serviceman counting gold bars inside bank vault. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/28/45 -- Maj. S.L. Anderson, manager of the Rome branch of the Allied Financial Agency, counts gold ingots valued at approximately $40,000 each, part of the cache found by Allied troops in North Italy and brought to the bank of Italy in Rome for safe keeping.The total value of the gold ingots is approximately $100,000,000 (M). --- OWI Staff photo serviced by Rome Full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6423." Rome, Italy. 28 May 1945
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05/28/1945
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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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Milano
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45.467
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9.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Banks--Italy
Theft--Germany
Meetings--Italy
Discussion--Italy
Officers--Italian--Italy