Queen Mary brings Americans home in New York Harbor, New York, June 1945
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Photograph. View of the deck and stern of the Queen Mary as it returns American soldiers home. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/23/45--'Queen Mary'brings Americans home--The decks of the huge British liner 'Queen Mary'are packed with 14,000 U.S. troops from the European theater as she steams into New York harbor on June 21, 1945. Her first voyage to America since V-E Day. Since March 21, 1940, the liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth carried 1,243,538 men to all parts of the world.--Coast Guard photo through OWI Radiophoto--approved by appropriate military authority--serviced by Rome OWI (C list out) 6847." New York Harbor, New York, New York. 21 June 1945
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06/23/1945
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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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New York
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40.700
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-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Homecomings--United States
Soldiers--American--New York
Ships--British--United States
Harbors--New York