Fleet Admiral Nimitz Visits Submarines, PTO, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz saluting as he walks down a gangplank; military band in background. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/25/45--Nimitz visits submarines--A Navy band greets U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of Allied Naval Forces in the Pacific, who salutes as he boards a submarine at an American Submariners' rest camp in the Pacific. A total of 1142 Japanese ships were sunk by U.S. submarines between Dec. 7, 1941, and June 1, 1945, at a loss of 43 submarines.--International News Photo Through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority-(List A out) 6858." PTO. 25 June 1945
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06/25/1945
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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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Generals--American
Military bands
Saluting