General Carl A. Spaatz arrives in New York City, 1945
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Photograph. General Carl A. Spaatz, Commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, waving from window of plane. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--Spaatz flies home--General Carl A. Spaatz, Commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, whose bombers paralyzed German war industries, waves from his plane as he arrives at New York. Many of his planes and personnel are being transferred to the Pacific.--International New Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 6921." New York.29 June 1945
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06/29/1945
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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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New York
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40.700
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-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Generals--American--New York
Salutations--New York