Army Air Force serviceman Arthur Eckstein reading to a young Italian girl, Italy, May 1945
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Photograph. American serviceman sitting on cot and reading to a young Italian girl; the girl wears a brooch with a dangling accordion. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/29/45 -- Italian child 'adopted' by AAF [Army Air Force] crew -- U.S. Lt. Arthur Eckstein shows a U.S. magazine to Carmelina Castilina, five-year-old Italian girl who has been adopted by a combat crew of the 15th Allied Air Force in Italy.--Stars and Stripes photo--Serviced by Rome OWI full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6433." Italy. 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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Italia
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42.833
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12.833
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Reading--Italy
Children--Italy
Military personnel--American--Italy