Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy tossing their hats at graduation, West Point, New York, 1945
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Photograph. Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point tossing their hats at graduation. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/24/45--Commencement at West Point--In keeping with a time-honored custom, graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., toss their hats into the air at the conclusion of commencement exercises when 853 Cadets, a record, were commissioned Second Lieutenants in the Army. Many will be assigned immediately to the Pacific Theater in the war against the Japanese. *Acme photo through OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out) 6853."West Point, New York. 24 June 1945
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06/24/1945
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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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West Point
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41.383
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-73.950
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Graduation ceremonies--New York
Military officers--American--New York
Uniforms--United States