President Truman presenting Congressional Medal of Honor to General Wainwright, Washington, D. C., September 1945

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Photograph. U.S. President Harry Truman presenting the Congressional Medal of Honor to General Jonathan M. Wainwright. Official Caption: "Rome, 9/21/1945. U.S. President presents Congressional Medal of Honor to General Wainwright in U.S. Capital. U.S. President Harry Truman presents the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. military award, to General Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero of Corregidor and Bataan, in Washington, U.S. capital, on Sept. 10, 1945. General Wainwright, who was forced to surrender to the Japanese at Corregidor in Maj [sic], 1942, after a heroic defense, returned to the U.S. after accepting the surrender of Japanese forces at Baguio, Philippines summer capital, on Sept. 2, 1945. The American hero had witnessed the formal Japanese capitulation aboard a U.S. warship in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 1, following his rescue from Japanese prisoner of war camp by U.S. and Soviet forces. (D List out) 43941 PHE. Photo through USIS Rome." Washington, D. C. 10 September 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.765
Date: 
09/10/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Generals--American--District of Columbia
Military decorations--District of Columbia
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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: 
District of Columbia
Latitude: 
38.833
Longitude: 
-77.000
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Presidents--American--District of Columbia
Generals--American--District of Columbia
Military decorations--District of Columbia