Pietro Koch, Nazi collaborator, being executed by firing squad outside Rome, Italy, June 1945
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Photograph. Pietro Koch, Nazi collaborator, being executed by firing squad; he is tied to a chair with his back towards the firing squad. Official Caption: "Cold and unemotional until the very end, Koch dies a traitor's death. He is shot in the back by 17 public security guards who, commanded by a warrant officer, stood about 15 paces from the chair. 6509-D" Near Rome, Italy. 5 June 1945
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06/05/1945
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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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Executions--Italy
Nazis--Italy
Firing squads--Italy