Former Italian prisoners of war at the Allied Commission's repatriation center, Bolzano, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. Former Italian prisoners of war having just returned home to Italy. Official Caption: "Hundreds of Italian refugees from German and Austrian labor camps jam the courtyard at the Allied Commission's repatriation center at Bolzano while they await transportation to their homes.--Rome OWI. 6767 D." Bolzano, 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.
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Bolzano
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46.517
Longitude:
11.367
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Prisoners of war--Italian--Italy
Refugees--Italian--Italy
Crowds--Italy