Dr. Robert Ley captured in pajamas outside Berchtesgaden, Germany, May 1945
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Photograph. Dr. Robert Ley, captured former German Front Labor Leader, wearing pajamas as he walks past American soldiers. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/29/45--Ley captured in pajamas--U.S. Seventh Army soldiers watch the sullen Dr. Robert Ley, former German Front Labor Leader, who was captured May 16, 1945, in his pajamas in a house 45 miles (75 kms.) from Berchtesgaden.--War Pool Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6443." Outside Berchtesgaden, Germany. 29 May 1945
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05/29/1945
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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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Berchtesgaden
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47.633
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13.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Prisoners of war--German--Germany
Soldiers--American--Germany
Sleepwear