U.S. soldier helping emaciated Wöbbelin concentration camp victim into truck, Germany, May 1945
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Photograph. U.S. soldier helping emaciated Wöbbelin concentration camp victim into truck. Official Caption: [damaged] "division helps one of the emacia-. . . into a truck which will take him. . . immediately after this camp was. . . officers immediately ordered leading. . . and other towns to march through the. . . committed by representatives of the. . . civilians disclaimed any knowledge of. . . fact that many of the prisoners. 6531 D."Wöbbelin, Germany. May 1945
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1945-05-
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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.
Geography:
Wöbbelin
Latitude:
53.400
Longitude:
11.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Concentration camps--Germany
Prisoners--Germany
Soldiers--American--Germany