U.S General Courtney H. Hodges welcomed home in Atlanta, Georgia, 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall shaking hands with General Courtney H. Hodges, Commander of the U.S. First Army, upong the General's arrival in Atlanta; Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield standing nearby. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--General Hodges welcomed home--Governor Ellis Arnall (L) of the southern U.S. State of Georgia, greets General Courtney H. Hodges, Commander of the U.S. First Army, upon the latter's arrival in Atlanta, the state capital. Mayor William Hartsfield of Atlanta (R) looks on. The First Army Commander, Pacific-bound to supervise the redeployment of his army against the Japanese, lives near Atlanta. Acme photo through Rome OWI- Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 6980." Atlanta, Georgia. 3 July 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.418
Date: 
07/03/1945
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Unit: 
First Army
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Topical Subjects: 
Generals--American--Georgia
Governors--American--Georgia
Mayors--American--Georgia
Shaking hands--Georgia
Collection Level: 
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: 
Georgia
Latitude: 
32.000
Longitude: 
-84.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Generals--American--Georgia
Governors--American--Georgia
Mayors--American--Georgia
Shaking hands--Georgia