Czechoslovakian President Eduard Benes, Prague, May 1945
Description:
Photograph, portrait photograph. Czechoslovakian President Eduard Benes seated in chair. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/29/45--President Benes in Prague--President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia is shown at his desk in Prague May 17, 1945, for the first time since he resigned the presidency following the German occupation of the Sudeten area Oct. 5, 1938. He was elected Czechoslovakian President to succeed Dr. Masaryk in December, 1935, and has served as President-in-exile of the Czechoslovakian Republic since July, 1940.--U.S. Signal Corps Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List out)--approved by appropriate military authority. 6442."Prague, Czechoslovakia. 29 May 1945
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Date:
05/29/1945
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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:
Praha
Latitude:
50.100
Longitude:
14.433
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Presidents--Czechoslovakian--Czechoslovakia
Portrait photographs--Czechoslovakia