Former Italian prisoners of war from Germany and Austria crowd the street, Bolzano, Italy, 1945

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Photograph. Former Italian prisoners of war from Germany and Austria, having just returned home to Italy, line a street down which is driving an American jeep; the men are holding bags and luggage. Note the crowd of men behind an iron fence in background. Official Caption: "Laden with all their belongings, homeward bound Italians line up for transportation at Bolzano.--Rome OWI. 6767E." Bolzano, Italy. 1945

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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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Bolzano
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46.517
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11.367
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Prisoners of war--Italian--Italy
Refugees--Italian--Italy
Jeep automobiles--American--Italy
Crowds--Italy