French refugees boarding train bound for home from Linz, Austria, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Crowd of French refugees posing for picture outdoors near train bound for Paris. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/10/45--French entrain for home--After years in German prison camps, these French displaced persons board a train in Linz, Austria, for the three-day trip to Paris, only the healthy went by train, the rest were carried by U.S. planes.--ISB photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority- (Full) 7066." Linz, Austria. 10 July 1945
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07/10/1945
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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:
Linz
Latitude:
48.317
Longitude:
14.300
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Refugees--French--Austria
Group portraits--Austria
Railroad trains--Austria
Flags--French