Four American senators talk to a policeman on the steps of the Allied Commission building, Italy, June 1945

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Photograph. American senators of the War Mobilization of the Military Affairs Committee, also known as the Kilgore Committee, in Rome. Official caption: "Rome, 6/4/45 -- U.S. senators in Rome -- Members of a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate's Kilgore Committee chat with a Roman policeman, Pasquale Sciarra, on the steps of the Allied Commission building on their way to confer with AC officials in Rome regarding civilian agencies and other matters. Pictured are (left to right) Sen. James M. Tunnell of Delaware, Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan, Sen. Harley M. Kilgore of West Virginia, Sciarra and Sen. Hugh B. Mitchell of the State of Washington. The subcommittee arrived in the Mediterranean theater on June 1 and conferred in Leghorn on questions of supply and redeployment before coming to Rome on June 2. They went to Caserta on June 4 to continue their investigation of national defense. OWI staff photo -- Serviced by Rome OWI Full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6553."”Rome, Italy. 4 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.036
Date: 
06/04/1945
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Legislators--United States
Police--Italy
Discussion--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: 
Roma
Latitude: 
41.900
Longitude: 
12.483
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Legislators--United States
Police--Italy
Discussion--Italy