Friends Sergeant John A. Babcock and aircraftswoman Dorothy Hall say farewell at the war's end, England, 1945
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Photograph. American soldier says a tearful goodbye to a British WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) member. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/23/45--Farewell in England--Sergeant John A. Babcock of the U.S. 8th Air Force gets a tearful goodbye from British leading aircraftswoman Dorothy Hall as he takes off for the United States. Stationed only two miles apart, they had been friends for months.--Army Photo through Rome OWI--approved by appropriate military authority (B List Out). 7176."England. 23 July 1945
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07/23/1945
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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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England
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53.000
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-2.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Women--Military service--England
Soldiers--American--England
Crying
Farewells--England