Dr. Robert Ley after his capture near Berchtesgaden, Germany, 16 May 1945

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Photograph, portrait. Dr. Robert Ley, former German Labor Front leader, with beard and hat. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/29/45--Former German labor leader scowls--Dr. Robert Ley, once arrogant German Labor Front leader, sits scowling in a U.S. jeep after his arrest by two U. S. Seventh Army Privates 45 miles (73 km) from Berchtesgaden, May 16, 1945.--War Pool Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6444." Outside Berchtesgaden, Germany.”29 May 1945

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05/29/1945
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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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Berchtesgaden
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47.633
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13.000
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Prisoners of war--German--Germany
Hats--Germany
Portrait photographs--Germany