Essential German workers moving to Saar from Bamberg, Germany, July 1945
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Photograph. Elevated view of many German workers moving down street near railroad yard; houses nearby and cityscape in background. Official Caption: 'Rome 8/4/45. Essential German workers moved to Saar--With their personal belongings loaded on farm vehicles, German civilians crowd the railroad yards area of Bamberg July 13, 1945, to await transportation to their homes in the Saar region of Germany. The U.S. Army granted transportation to 3,000 civilian miners, farmers and other essential workers but many others have gathered at the station, hoping to be permitted to make the trip.---U.S. Signal Corps Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome." Bamberg, Germany. 13 July 1945
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07/13/1945
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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.
Geography:
Bamberg
Latitude:
49.867
Longitude:
10.867
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
People--Germany
Streets--Germany
Carts & wagons--German--Germany
Dwellings--Germany