Marshal I.E. Brodie, Royal Air Force, speaking with Italian pilots on an airfield, Italy, May 1945

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Photograph. Royal Air Force Air Vice Marshal I.E. Brodie speaking with Italian pilots near parked Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 bomber. Official caption: "Rome, 5/24/45--Air Vice Marshal I.E. Brodie (right) of the Allied Commission talks with Italian fliers at Rome Airfield. In the background is one of the Italian planes now used by AC for passenger and freight service to Northern Italy.--AC photo--serviced by Rome OWI Full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6384."”Rome, Italy. 24 May 1945

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05/24/1945
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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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Roma
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41.900
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12.483
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Bombers--Italian--Italy
Military air pilots--Italian--Italy
Military officers--British--Italy
Discussion--Italy