General Patton and Lieutenant General Doolittle, Los Angeles, California, 9 June 1945
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Photograph. U.S. General George Patton walking with Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle; airplane in background. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/1/45--Back on native soil--U.S. General George S. Patton, Jr. (L), Commander of the U.S. Third Army, and Lieut. Gen. James H. Doolittle, Commander of the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force, arrive at Los Angeles, California, from Europe for a home-state welcoming ceremony. General Patton's Third Army is one of those occupying Germany, General Doolittle will lead his Eight Air Force against Japan.--AP Photo Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out) 6966." Los Angeles, California. 9 June 1945
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06/09/1945
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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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Los Angeles
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34.050
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-118.233
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Generals--American--California
Military uniforms--American--California