Premier Pierre Laval surrendering to Americans in Linz, Austria, July 1945
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Photograph. Pierre Laval (left) surrendering to officers of the Ninth U.S. Air Force; Major Henry E. Wood standing nearby. Official Caption: "Rome 8/9/45. Laval surrenders to Americans. Pierre Laval (left) surrenders himself to officers of the 79th Fighter group, Ninth U.S. Air Force at Horshing Airport in Linz, Austria, July 31, 1945. Maj. Henry E. Wood, Executive Officer of the 79th Fighter Group looks on. The former Vichy Premier was flown from Barcelone [sic] in a German plane, piloted by two German aviators. He arrived in Paris with his wife August 1, and was rushed immediately to Fresnes prison. 79th Fighter Group Photo through Rome U. S. I. S. Certified and passed by censor (A and B List out). Linz, Austria. 31 July 1945
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07/31/1945
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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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Linz
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48.317
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14.300
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Military officers--American--Austria
Prisoners of war--French--Austria