British military police stand guard as food is unloaded from a truck, Trieste, 1945
Description:
Photograph. British military police stand guard as Pontifical food is unloaded from truck in Trieste. Official Caption: "Rome. 6/4/45--Pontifical food arrives in Trieste--The first 300 tons of flour, grain and oil sent from Milan through the Pontifical Commission arrives at Italian Red Cross Headquarters in Trieste in a Vatican City transport. British military police stand guard as part of the supplies is unloaded.--British Official photo--Serviced by Rome OWI. Full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6535."Trieste, Italy. 04 June 1945
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06/04/1945
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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.
Geography:
Trieste
Latitude:
45.649
Longitude:
13.780
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military police--British--Italy
Equipment & supplies--Italy
Grains--Italy