Group portrait of General Raffaele Cadorna, Jr., General Crittenberger, and Field Marshall Alexander, Italy, 1945

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Photograph. Group portrait of Italian General Raffaele Cadorna, Jr., American General Crittenberger, and British Field Marshall Alexander. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/25/45 -- Alexander in Milan Maj. Gen. Raffaele Cadorna (L), Former head of the Italian Partisans and now Italian Army Chief of Staff; U.S. Maj. Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger, Commander of the Fourth Corps, (Center) are shown with Field Marshall Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean, after a conference in Milan. Marshall Alexander said ‘The Italians have worked their passage very well and have given important help to the Allied cause. The Italian soldiers have had good leadership. OWI Staff photo. Approved by appropriate military authority – Serviced by Rome OWI (List M Out). 6870." Milan, Italy. 25 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.020
Date: 
06/25/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Officers--British--Italy
Generals--American--Italy
Meetings--Italy
Military officers--American--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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Officers--British--Italy
Generals--American--Italy
Meetings--Italy
Military officers--American--Italy
Military officers--American--Italy