Liberated Polish man showing his prison number arm tattoo, Austria, 1945
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Photograph. Liberated Polish man showing the prison number tattooed on his arm by the Nazis. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/10/45--Branded by the Nazis--This 24-year old Pole shows the prison number tattooed on his arm by the Nazis. Held prisoner for four years in Poland and Austria, he is recovering from typhus in the American-operated hospital at Wels in upper Austria.--ISB Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (Full) 7071." Wels, Austria. 10 July 1945
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07/10/1945
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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.
Geography:
Wels
Latitude:
48.167
Longitude:
14.033
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Prisoners--Austria
Tattoos
Men--Austria