U.S. Soldier standing guard near coffins, ETO, 1945
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Photograph. Close up view of U.S. soldier of the 34th Infantry Division standing at parade rest with an M-1 Garand rifle in a room filled with flag-draped coffins with many civilians walking among the coffins reading the names and looking at the medals and flowers that decorate the coffins. "6467 D." ETO. 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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Italia
Latitude:
42.833
Longitude:
12.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Italy
Coffins--Italy
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Italy
Rifles--American--Italy
Insignia--Italy