Freed Russian women and their children walk down a roadway, Austria, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Group of Russian women, freed by the Allies, walking down a road, some of them holding infants; military personnel walking with them. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/30/45--Russian Women Freed--Russian women, freed by the Allies from forced labor in Austria, walk about now in complete freedom. They are being accommodated temporarily in the former Stalag IV prison camp before being returned home.--British official photo--Serviced by Rome OWI full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6459." Austria. 30 May 1945
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05/30/1945
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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:
Österreich
Latitude:
47.333
Longitude:
13.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Refugees--Russian--Austria
Infants--Austria
Walking--Austria
Fences--Austria