U.S. Provost Marshal examining rugs captured and stored by the Germans, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Provost Marshal Kovacs examining rugs captured and stored by the Germans. Official Caption: "Provost Marshal Kovacs looks at the costly oriental rugs, all neatly rolled and tagged by the thorough-going Germans who stole them and stored them in ancient Darendsberg [sic] Castle 6800 E." Italy. 1945
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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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Merano
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46.667
Longitude:
11.150
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Italy
Rugs--Italy
War destruction & pillage--Italy