Lieutenant Colonel Anna Wilson with General Joseph Koenig in Paris, July 1945

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Photograph. General Joseph Koenig congratulating Lieutenant Colonel Anna Wilson, Commander of the U.S. Women's Army Corps in the European Theater of Operations. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/26/45--U.S. WAC [Women's Army Corps] Commander honored by the French--General Joseph Koenig, military governor of Paris, congratulates Lieutenant Colonel Anna Wilson of North Hollywood, California, Commander of the U.S. Women's Army Corps in European theater of operations. After presenting her with the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor, Colonel Wilson was honored for meritorious service rendered the French Women's Army in London and France from April, 1943 to July, 1943.--Signal Corps photo through Rome OWI--approved by appropriate military authority--(B List Out). 7221."”Paris, France. 26 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.200
Date: 
07/26/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Women--Military service--France
Shaking hands--France
Generals--American--France
Military decorations--France
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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: 
Paris
Latitude: 
48.867
Longitude: 
2.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Women--Military service--France
Shaking hands--France
Generals--American--France
Military decorations--France