Italian partisans reviewed by British Lieutenant General Sir R. L. McCreery, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. Italian partisans being reviewed by British Lieutenant General Sir R. L. McCreery. Note the soldier wearing a kilt. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--Italian Partisans reviewed--Lieut. General Sir R. L. McCreery, Eighth Army Commander, inspects a group of Italian partisans of the Udine area at their recent demobilization. An Italian lad, unabashed by the occasion, followed the general during the inspection. General McCreery told the 6000 partisans that they had done a good job in helping liberate their country.--British official photo approved by appropriate military authority.--Serviced by Rome OWI (List D). 6940." Udine area, Italy. 29 June 1945
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06/29/1945
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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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Udine
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46.062
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13.242
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military officers--British--Italy
Boys--Italy
Guerrillas--Italian--Italy
Military parades & ceremonies--Italy
Kilts