President Truman, Lieutenant General Patch, and General Truscott stand together outside, Washington, D. C., 1945

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Photograph. U.S. President Harry Truman, Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, and General Lucian Truscott with Marshal Hermann Goering's baton (a short staff). Official Caption: "Rome, 7/11/45--Truman sees Goering's baton--Lieutenant General Alexander Patch (L) shows the diamond-studded baton of Marshal Hermann Goering to President Harry S. Truman at the White House in Washington. General Lucian Truscott, Commander of the Fifth Army, looks on. Marshall Goering, former head of the German Luftwaffe, is awaiting trial as a war criminal. General Patch, who led the U.S. Seventh Army through Southern France into Germany, now commands the Fourth Army in charge of training thousands of troops for redeployment against the Japanese in the Pacific.--Acme Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority. (List A out) 7074." Washington, D. C. 11 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.790
Date: 
07/11/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Generals--American--District of Columbia
Staffs (Sticks)
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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: 
District of Columbia
Latitude: 
38.833
Longitude: 
-77.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Generals--American--District of Columbia
Staffs (Sticks)