British Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander being awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. General Joseph T. McNariney pinning the American Distinguished Service Medal on British Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/19/45--Alexander Honored--U.S. General Joseph T. McNariney, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean theater, pins the American Distinguished Service Medal on British Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service to the United States as Supreme Commander of the Mediterranean campaign from May 14, 1943 to May 2, 1945.--Army pictorial service photo approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI full. 6803." Location unknown. 19 June 1945
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06/19/1945
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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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