President Truman holding Japanese surrender message, Washington, D. C., August 1945
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Photograph. U.S. President Truman smiling and holding Japanese surrender message. Official Caption: "Rome 8/23/45. U.S. President holds Japanese surrender message. U.S. President Harry S. Truman smiles broadly in his office in Washington on Aug. 14, 1945, shortly after he announced the war's end at 7.00 P.M. (Eastern War Time). The Chief Executive holds the message from the Japanese accepting the Allies' unconditional surrender terms as stated in the Potsdam Ultimatum. Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome 43472-PPA. A. P. Photo. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority (D List out). Washington, D. C. 14 August 1945
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08/14/1945
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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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District of Columbia
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38.833
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-77.000
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Presidents--American--District of Columbia