French refugees wait on an airfield for transport to France, Austria, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Long line of French refugees in airfield, awaiting return to France; American transport plane in background. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/10/45--French head for home--Hundreds of French displaced persons, former slave workers in Nazi concentration camps, wait in line to board American planes at the airport in Linz, Austria, for transportation to their homeland. By June 26, 38,000 had been flown to France and additional thousands transported by train.--ISB photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (full) 7064." Linz, 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:
Linz
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48.317
Longitude:
14.300
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Refugees--French--Austria