Italian refugee from Germany wears top hat, Italy, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Italian refugee from Germany wearing top hat and smoking a cigar at a camp; he is sitting on a trunk. Official Caption: "One Italian refugee from Germany is coming home in style. Somewhere along the route he has picked up a top hat and an American soldier gave him a cigar to match as he waits for a truck south at the Allied Commission's Bolzano camp.--Rome OWI. 6767 C." Bolzano, Italy. 1945
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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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Bolzano
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46.517
Longitude:
11.367
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Refugees--Italian--Italy
Men--Clothing & dress--Italy
Smoking--Italy
Cigars--Italy
Luggage