Cartoonist/soldier William H. Mauldin and General Joseph T. McNarney shake hands, 1945

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Photograph. General Joseph T. McNarney shaking hands with Technician Third Grade William H. Mauldin, cartoonist for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/6/45--Soldiers' cartoonist decorated--Gen. Joseph T. McNarney (left), Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, congratulates T/3 William H. Mauldin of Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., after awarding him the Legion of Merit, for exceptional conduct in the performance of outstanding services in the Mediterranean and European Theaters from November, 1943 to June, 1945, as a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes, U.S. Army Newspaper.--Army Pictorial Photo--serviced by Rome OWI Full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6601." Location unknown. 6 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.222
Date: 
06/06/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Military decorations
Generals--American
Cartoonists
Shaking hands
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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.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Military decorations
Generals--American
Cartoonists
Shaking hands