General Eisenhower signing the Berlin Declaration, Berlin, Germany, June 1945
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Photograph. U.S. General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, signing the Berlin Declaration. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/15/45--Eisenhower signs pact--General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, signs the historic declaration on the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority in Germany by the four major allies in the European war at the headquarters of Marshall Gregory Zhukov in Berlin on June 5, 1945.--War pool photo Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List out) 6707." Berlin, Germany.15 June 1945
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06/15/1945
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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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Berlin
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52.517
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13.400
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Generals--American--Germany
Document signings--Germany
Military uniforms--American--Germany