Newly inducted servicemen lining up in a railroad station, New York City, 1945

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Photograph. Young men, wearing business suits and holding bags, line up indoors at a station. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/13/45--New U.S. Inductees--Newly inducted servicemen line up in a New York City railroad station to start their trip to a U.S. military camp. After adequate training, they will participate in the war against the Japanese, carrying out U.S. President Harry S. Truman's V-E Day statement: 'We must work to finish the war. Our victory is but half won. The West is free, but the East is still in bondage to the treacherous tyranny of the Japanese. . .The victory won in the West must now be won in the East'.--PME photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6685." New York City, New York. 13 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.338
Date: 
06/13/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Military personnel--American--New York
Men--Clothing & dress--New York
Luggage--New York
Queues--New York
Collection Level: 
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: 
New York
Latitude: 
40.700
Longitude: 
-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Military personnel--American--New York
Men--Clothing & dress--New York
Luggage--New York
Queues--New York