Five Italian policemen climb into back of truck, Italy, 1945

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Photograph. Italian policemen (Carabinieri) loading into back of truck in Milan. Official Caption: "Rome. 5/28/45--Milan Police Reorganized--The Allied Military Government Safety Division, in cooperation with Carabinieri (police) officials, is reorganizing the police system in Milan. Thirteen hundred Italian policemen are now patrolling, enforcing curfew regulations and in other ways assisting the Alllied Military Police. They hold daily conferences with the AMG [Allied Military Government] and will assume complete authority as soon as the reorganization is complete. The Carabinieri, having been reorganized secretly under Maj. [Major] Ettore Giovanni, stormed the barracks of the Fascists, on April 26, 1945, and retook their former stations. Since then, more and more former Carabinieri have joined the organization every day.--OWI staff photos--Serviced by Rome OWI full. Approved by appropriate military authority. [6424 C]." Milan, Italy. 28 May 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.143
Date: 
05/28/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Military police--American--Italy
Military police--Italian--Italy
Rifles--Italian--Italy
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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: 
Milano
Latitude: 
45.467
Longitude: 
9.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Military police--American--Italy
Military police--Italian--Italy
Rifles--Italian--Italy