Chinese military officers receiving American military instruction, China, 1945
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Photograph. Chinese military officers watching field artillery fire in a demonstration of American techniques. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/18/45--Chinese officers in class--Chinese staff officers at the General Staff School, conducted by U.S. Army Officers in Southwest China, watch field artillery fire in a demonstration of American technique modeled on the U.S. Army's own Command and General Staff School in the U.S. It is the keystone of the American effort in China to help improve the Chinese Army.--Arrmy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7135." China. 18 July 1945
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07/18/1945
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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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Zhonghua
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35.000
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105.000
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Military officers--Chinese--China
Military officers--American--China
Military training--China