King Haakon VII returning home, Oslo, Norway, June 1945
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Photograph. Norwegian King Haakon VII (born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) inspecting U.S. soldiers during homecoming ceremonies; civilians and cityscape in background. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/16/45--Norwegian King returns--King Haakon of Norway, home for the first time since the German invasion in 1940, inspects a guard of honor of U.S. troops during the ceremonies June 7, 1945, welcoming him back to Oslo, Norwegian capital. Exactly five years previously King Haakon left Norway for London on a British cruiser to carry on the fight against the Germans.--U.S. Signal Corps Photo. Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List out) 6760." Oslo, Norway. 7 June 1945
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06/07/1945
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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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Oslo
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59.933
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10.750
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Kings--Norway
Military inspections--Norway
Soldiers--American--Norway
Military uniforms--American--Norway
Homecomings-Norway