General Carl Andrew "Tooey" Spaatz shaking hands with children, Pennsylvania, 1945
Description:
Photograph. General Carl Andrew "Tooey" Spaatz, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Force in the Pacific, shaking hands with a crowd of boys during a celebration in a city street. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/9/45--Hometown Welcomes Spaatz--General Carl A. Spaatz is greeted by youngsters during a celebration in his honor in his home town of Boyertown, in the eastern U.S. state of Pennsylvania. General Spaatz, who as commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe directed the bombing that leveled Germany, has been given the same assignment against Japan as Chief of the U.S. Army Air Force in the Pacific.--Acme photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(list A out) 7043." Boyertown, Pennsylvania. 9 July 1945
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07/09/1945
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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:
Boyertown
Latitude:
40.333
Longitude:
-75.633
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Generals--American--Pennsylvania
Shaking hands--Pennsylvania
Crowds--Pennsylvania