Generals Carl A. Spaatz and Omar N. Bradley with the Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, 1945
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Photograph. American Generals Carl A. Spaatz and Omar Bradley posing for picture with the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--Generals and symbol of Freedom--U.S. Generals Carl A. Spaatz (L), Commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, and Omar N. Bradley, Commander of the 12th U.S. Army Group, pay homage to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia after they returned to the U.S. from Paris. The bell, a patriotic shrine to all Americans, cracked while being hung to celebrate American Independence.--International News photo through Rome OWI--approved by appropriate military authority--(List A out). 6928."Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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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Philadelphia
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39.950
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-75.150
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Generals--American--Pennsylvania
Celebrations--Philadelphia--Pennsylvania
Military uniforms--American--Pennsylvania
Bells