Berlin's battered Reichstag, seat of the former German Government, 1945
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Photograph. War damaged Reichstag, seat of the former German Government, surrounded by debris. Official Caption: "7/20/45--Berlin's battered Reichstag--This is devastated Reichstag building in Berlin, seat of the former German Government, as it looked to American soldiers moving in to complete the occupation of the Nazi capital.--U.S. Signal Corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority. (B list out). 7154." Berlin, Germany. 20 July 1945
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07/20/1945
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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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Berlin
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52.517
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13.400
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War damage--Germany
Debris--Germany
Government facilities--German--Germany
Architectural elements--Germany