One American soldier stands among captured German trucks and POWs, Northern Italy, 1945
Description:
Photograph. One American soldier stands among captured German trucks and German prisoners of war. Official Caption: "Captured German trucks with their prisoner of war drivers form in convoy to return Italian refugees south from the Allied commission camp at Bolzano. Rome OWI. 6767B." Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. 1945
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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:
Bolzano
Latitude:
46.517
Longitude:
11.367
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Prisoners of war--German--Italy
Refugees--Italian--Italy
Convoys
Vehicles, military--German--Italy