Truman and dignitaries walking away from a plane, Berlin, Germany, July 1945
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Photograph. Truman and dignitaries stand in front of a plane after the President arrives in Berlin, Germany. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/23/45--U.S. President in Berlin--U.S. President Harry S. Truman leaves his plane at the Berlin airport for the historic conference at nearby Potsdam with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin. Walking with the president (in light hat) are Colonel Harry H. Vaughan (L), his military aide, and Edwin C. Pauley, chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Allied Reparations Commission. At the right rear of the president is Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian Ambassador to the United States.--British Official Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (B List Out). 7174."Berlin, Germany. 23 July 1945
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07/23/1945
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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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Berlin
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52.517
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13.400
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Presidents--American--Germany
Ambassadors--Russian--Germany
Government officials--American--Germany
Military officers--American--Germany
Men--Clothing & dress--Germany