Officers inspect members of the Italian Co-Belligerent Army in Milan, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. British, American, and Italian officers inspect members of the Italian Co-Belligerent Army, all carrying M1928 Thompson submachine guns except for one soldier with bugle and fleur-de-lis flag. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/25/45 -- Italian troops inspected -- Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean, inspects the Italian Legnano group at Milan. Behind him are (L to R): U.S. Maj. Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, Deputy Chief of Staff, AFHQ; Gen. Umberto Utile, commander of the Italian Army Group, and U.S. Maj. Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger, Commander of the Fourth Corps. OWI Staff photo approved by appropriate military authority. Serviced by Rome OWI (M List Out). 6868." Milan, Italy. 25 June 1945
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06/25/1945
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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:
Milano
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45.467
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9.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Generals--American--Italy
Generals--Italian--Italy
Soldiers--Italian--Italy
Machine guns--American--Italy
Military inspections--Italy
Bugles
Military officers--British--Italy