Three Italian partisans converse, Pordenone, Italy, June 1945
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Photograph. Three Italian partisans, two with British Sten guns and one with a German MP44/StG 44 assault rifle stand together, talking. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/16/45 Italian partisans of Friuli District--typical fighters of Italian partisan forces gather at the football field at Pordenone in the Friuli District near Venice for the ceremony at which they handed in the arms which they had used so well against the enemy. British official photo approved by appropriate military authority Serviced By Rome OWI full. 6758."Pordenone, Italy. 16 June 1945
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06/16/1945
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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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Pordenone
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45.964
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12.658
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Underground movements--Italy
Men--Clothing & dress--Italy
Machine guns--German--Italy
Machine guns--British--Italy