Major Philip D. Vitielol working checkpoint at train station, Switzerland, 1945
Description:
Photograph. American lawyer working checkpoint at train station for refugees crossing Swiss/Italian border. Official Caption: "Major Philip D. Vitiello (seated), former New York lawyer, in charge of processing for the Allied Military Government at Chiasso, checks displaced Italians at the railroad station. 7094 C." Chiasso, Switzerland. 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.
Geography:
Chiasso
Latitude:
45.850
Longitude:
9.033
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Railroad stations--Switzerland
Refugees--Italian--Switzerland
Lawyers--Switzerland
Security checkpoints--Switzerland
Government officials--American--Switzerland