President Truman shakes hands with the American Ambassador to Belgium, Brussels, 1945
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Photograph. President Truman shakes hands with the American Ambassador to Belgium. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/23/45--Truman in Europe--U.S. President Harry S. Truman is shown at an airport near Brussels, Belgium, chatting with Charles Sawyer (L), U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, and M. Van Acker (R), Belgian Prime Minister. The President was en route to Potsdam, Germany, to confer with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain and Marshal Josef Stalin of Russia.--OWI Staff Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (B List Out). 7171." Brussels, Belgium. 23 July 1945
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07/23/1945
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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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Bruxelles
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50.833
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4.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Presidents--American--Belgium
Prime ministers--Belgian--Belgium
Ambassadors--American--Belgium
Meetings--Belgium