Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and President Truman, Washington, D. C., August 1945
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Photograph. President Harry S. Truman talking with Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek. Official Caption: "Rome 9/6/45 Wife of Chinese Generalissimo chats with U.S. President. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek expresses her thanks on Aug. 29, 1945 at the White House in Washington to U.S. President Harry S. Truman for his nation's hospitality while she underwent eleven months of medical treatment in the U.S. A few hours later Madame Chiang left aboard a U.S. Army air transport command plane for China. She is expected to reach her own country in time to accompany her husband from the war-time capital of Chungking to Nanking the capital. Photo serviced through U. S. I. S. Rome 43742-PHE." Washington, D. C. 29 August 1945
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08/29/1945
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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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District of Columbia
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38.833
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-77.000
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Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Presidents' spouses--Chinese--District of Columbia