Chinese Representative Wunz King and U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Hodgson, London, 1945

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Photograph. Chinese Representative Wunz King and U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Hodgson at the first United Nations War Crimes Commission Conference. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/11/45--At War Crimes Meeting--Wunz King (left), Representative of China, and Lt. Col. Joseph B. Hodgson, representative of the U.S., are shown as they attended the first United Nations War Crimes Commission Conference in London. Representative of 16 nations were present at the conference, preliminary to prosecution of the war criminals later this summer. The nations present included Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, India, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Yugoslavia.--OWI staff photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (B list out)--Approved by appropriate military authority. 6620."”London, Great Britain. 11 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.369
Date: 
06/11/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Political representation--England
Military uniforms--American--England
Meetings--England
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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: 
London
Latitude: 
51.500
Longitude: 
-0.167
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Political representation--England
Military uniforms--American--England
Meetings--England