Exterior of the war-damaged U.S. embassy, Berlin, Germany, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Civilians and soldiers walking in a street in front of the war-damaged U.S. embassy in Berlin. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/20/45--In the Wake of War--This is what is left of the U.S. embassy in Berlin which shared the fate of other German buildings under the pounding of allied bombs.--AP photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(B List Out) 7158." Berlin, Germany. 20 July 1945
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07/20/1945
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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:
Berlin
Latitude:
52.517
Longitude:
13.400
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
War damage--Germany
Embassies--American--Germany