French refugees aboard an American airplane, 1945
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Photograph. French refugees aboard an American airplane; pilot at center in background. Official Caption: [damaged] "Rome, 7/10/45--Start of welcome journey--The pilot. . . Fortress arranges seating of passengers before taking off. . . Paris. The passengers are French men, women and children. . . in Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Austria.--. . . Approved by appropriate. . . uthority (FULL). Location unknown. 10 July 1945
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07/10/1945
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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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Refugees--French
Airplanes--American