Former captain in the Carabinieri applying for reappointment, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. Civilian man standing before two military officers sitting at a desk covered by documents. The man is a former captain in the Carabinieri applying for reappointment. Official Caption: "Former captain in the Carabinieri (in civilian clothes) applies for reappointment and is interviewed by Lt. Col. Alfred Zumaglini, who is in charge of enlisted men, and (right) Lt. Col. Carlo de Matteis, who is in charge of Officers. This applicant has been fighting the Germans as a partisan. Many of the former Carabinieri refused to work for the Fascists and Germans and either fled or were sent to Germany. 6425 E." Italy. 1945
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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:
Italia
Latitude:
42.833
Longitude:
12.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military police--Italian--Italy
Military officers--Italian--Italy
Interviews