U.S. troops disembarking from a ship, New York City, June 1945
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Photograph. U.S. soldiers, carrying bags, disembark from a ship in New York City and check in with military personnel at a desk at the bottom of the gangway. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/21/45--U.S. Troops Back Home--Back from their victory in Europe, U.S. soldiers disembark from a vessel in New York. Millions will be returned for discharge or for reassignment to the Pacific theater. About 7,000,000 American soldiers will be fighting the Japanese within a year, President Harry S. Truman said recently.--Acme photo through OWI--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out)--Approved by appropriate military authority. 6818." New York, New York. 21 June 1945
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06/21/1945
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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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New York
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40.700
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-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--New York
Luggage--New York
Ships--American--New York
Gangplanks--New York
Desks--New York