Major General Curtis E. Lemay holding cigar and standing before large map, Washington, D. C., July 1945

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Photograph. Major General Curtis E. Lemay holding cigar and standing before large map. Official Caption: "Rome 7/14/45--Bomber Chief--Major General Curtis E. Lemay is the new Commander of the 20th U.S. Army Air Force. Succeeding General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of Army Air Forces who temporarily directed the 20th composed of B-29 Superfortresses. General Lemay, who has fought in the European, CBI and Pacific theaters, has been head of the 21st Bomber Command in the Pacific. The 20th and the 8th USAAF of Lieut. Gen. James H. Doolittle will be under the joint command of General Carl A. Spaatz, head of the U.S. Strategic Air Force in the Pacific. General Lemay, shown in Washington after a non-stop flight in June from Honolulu in a B-29 in 20 hours and 15 minutes, said: 'Missions of 1000 planes against Japan will come before long.'--Acme photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (list A out). 7116." Washington, D. C. 14 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.261
Date: 
07/14/1945
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Unit: 
20th Air Force
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Topical Subjects: 
Generals--American--District of Columbia
Military uniforms--American--District of Columbia
Cigars
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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: 
District of Columbia
Latitude: 
38.833
Longitude: 
-77.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Generals--American--District of Columbia
Military uniforms--American--District of Columbia
Cigars