Congress hears General Eisenhower in Washington, D. C., June 1945

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Photograph. General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to the U.S. Congress inside the chambers of the House of Representatives. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/28/45--Congress Hears Eisenhower--Every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives is filled when a joint session of Congress listens to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower (at microphones) deliver a homecoming address on June 18. The Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe said the soldier 'knows that in war the threat of separate annihilation tends to hold allies together; he hopes we can find in peace a nobler incentive to produce the same unity.'--Acme photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (list A out) 6902." Washington D.C. 28 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.319
Date: 
06/28/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Generals--American--District of Columbia
Public speaking--District of Columbia
Legislators--District of Columbia
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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: 
District of Columbia
Latitude: 
38.833
Longitude: 
-77.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Generals--American--District of Columbia
Public speaking--District of Columbia
Legislators--District of Columbia