General Mark W. Clark and Sergeant Oscar G. Johnson Jr. shake hands, Italy, July 1945

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Photograph. U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark (right) shaking hands with Sergeant Oscar G. Johnson Jr. after presenting Johnson with the Congressional Medal of Honor; the men are standing outdoors. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--General Greets Hero--U.S. General Mark W. Clark, Commander of the 15th Army Group in Italy, shakes hands with U.S. Sergt. Oscar G. Johnson, Jr. of the 91st Division, after presenting him with the Congressional Medal of Honor. During the battle of the Gothic line in September, 1944, Sergeant Johnson killed 20 Germans, silenced three machines gun positions and captured 24 prisoners. General Clark on June 27, 1945 was named Chief of the U.S. Occupation Forces in Austria.--British official photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced full. 6942." Italy.”29 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.344
Date: 
07/29/1945
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Unit: 
15th Army Group
91st Infantry Division
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Topical Subjects: 
Generals--American--Italy
Soldiers--American--Italy
Military decorations--Italy
Shaking hands--Italy
Collection Level: 
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: 
Italia
Latitude: 
42.833
Longitude: 
12.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Generals--American--Italy
Soldiers--American--Italy
Military decorations--Italy
Shaking hands--Italy