Members of the U.S. Army's 86th Infantry Division arriving aboard a transport ship, New York City, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. Members of the U.S. Army's 86th Infantry Division arriving aboard a transport ship in New York City. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/16/45--From Europe to Tokyo--Some of the 14,289 men of the U.S. 86th 'Blackhawk'Division reach New York aboard an Army transport proudly displaying their slogan 'ETO (European Theater of Operations) to Tokyo.' After furloughs at home, the soldiers will go to the Pacific. The Blackhawk division, which captured 77,000 German troops in 44 days was the first division to return as a unit from Europe.--AP Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out). New York, New York. 16 July 1945
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07/16/1945
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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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New York
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40.700
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-74.000
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Cargo ships--American--New York
Aerial photographs--New York
Insignia--New York
Soldiers--American--New York
Banners--New York