Mayor Greppi speaking at a theater, Milan, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. Mayor Greppi speaking at a special service in memory of the late U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt at a theater in Milan; an orchestra is seated onstage behind him. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/23/45--Roosevelt honored in Milan--Mayor [Illegible itonio] Greppi of Milan speaks to the Lirigo Theater at a special service in memory of the late U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt 'and all those who have given their lives for liberty.' On the stage is the La Scala Symphony Orchestra and Chorus who gave Verdi's requiem mass at the service on June 19, 1945.--OWI staff photo approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (M List Out) 6848 A."Milan, Italy. 23 June 1945
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06/23/1945
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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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Milano
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45.467
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9.200
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Public speaking--Italy
Orchestras--Italian--Italy
Memorial rites & ceremonies--Italy
Mayors--Italian--Italy