British liner Queen Mary, American troops filling her decks, pulling into harbor, New York City, 1945
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Photograph. Port side view of the British liner Queen Mary, American troops filling her decks, pulling into New York City. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/16/45--Welcome home--The towering skyline of New York City is a welcome sight to 14,526 American fighting men returning from Europe aboard the British liner Queen Mary. Many of the troops were destined for redeployment to the Pacific.--International news photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out). 7122." New York, New York. 16 July 1945
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07/16/1945
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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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New York
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40.700
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-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Ocean liners--British--New York
Cityscapes--New York