Smiling Russian soldiers, Soviet Union, 1945
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Photograph. Smiling Russian soldiers with weapons. Official Caption: "Rome, 8/20/45. Members of Red Army stationed in Far East. These are members of the Red Army stationed on the Far East borders of the Soviet Union. Photo serviced through USIS, Rome 43337_PMI. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. (D list out)." Soviet Union. 20 August 1945
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08/20/1945
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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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Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik
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Group portraits--Soviet Union
Soldiers--Russian--Soviet Union
Military uniforms--Russian--Soviet Union
Rifles--Russian--Soviet Union