British Liberators escorting the surrendered German cruiser Nurnberg near Wilhelmshafen, Germany, 1945
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Photograph. British Liberators escorting the surrendered German cruiser Nurnberg. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/30/45--German cruiser after surrender--Liberators of the RAF [Royal Air Force] Coastal Command escort the German cruiser, 'Nurnberg', to Wilhelmshafen after her surrender.--British official photo by OWI Radiophoto--serviced by Rome OWI (List C out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6462."Near Wilhelmshafen, Germany. 30 May 1945
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05/30/1945
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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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Cruisers (Warships)--German
Airplanes--British
Surrenders--German--Germany