German civilians wait to be screened at a railroad station, Bamberg, Germany, July 1945
Description:
Photograph. Elevated view of German civilians being screened at railroad station before trip home to Saar. Official Caption: [damaged] "Rome 8/4/45. Essential German workers moved to Saar- German civilians move past U. . . . Army Military Government screening booth in the railroad. . . area of Bamberg July 13, 1945, prior to boarding trains for. . . homes in the Saar region of Germany. The U.S. Army granted. . . portation to 3,000 civilians, miners, farmers and other essential. . . but many others gathered at the station, hoping to be permitted. . . the trip.--U.S. Signal Corps photo through U. S. I. S. Rome." Bamberg, Germany. 13 July 1945
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Date:
07/13/1945
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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:
Bamberg
Latitude:
49.867
Longitude:
10.867
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Railroad stations--Germany
Crowds--Germany
People--Germany
Labor supply--Germany