President Truman chatting with U.S. Army soldier, Brussels, Belgium, 1945

Description: 

Photograph. U.S. President Harry S. Truman (second from left) chatting with U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Donald Konold outdoors; other soldiers, military officers, and government officials nearby. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/27/45--President Chats with Soldier--U.S. President Harry S. Truman (second from left) chats with Sergeant Donald Konold of the U.S. 34th Division [shoulder patch signifies 35th Infantry Division] during the President's stop in Brussels, Belgium, while en route to Potsdam, Germany, to confer with leaders of Great Britain and Russia. He was the first U.S. President to set foot on European soil since President Woodrow Wilson.--Signal Corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by Appropriate Military Authority (list A out). 7230."”Brussels, Belgium. 27 July 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.577
Date: 
07/27/1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
35th Infantry Division
Campaign / Event: 
Occupation of Europe (1945-55)
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Presidents--American--Belgium
Soldiers--American--Belgium
Conversation--Belgium
Military uniforms--American--Belgium
Insignia--Belgium
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: 
Bruxelles
Latitude: 
50.833
Longitude: 
4.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Presidents--American--Belgium
Soldiers--American--Belgium
Conversation--Belgium
Military uniforms--American--Belgium
Insignia--Belgium