General Truscott paying tribute to fallen U.S. soldiers in Anzio, Italy, May 1945

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Photograph. Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott giving a public address during tribute to fallen U.S. soldiers. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/31/45--Gen. Truscott pays tribute to fallen U.S. soldiers--Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Commanding General of the Fifth Army who commanded the famed U.S. Sixth Army Corps during the Anzio beachhead fighting, pays tribute to the 6,614 American men and women who lost their lives there. His address featured the Memorial Day Ceremony held May 30, 1945, at the American Military Cemetery at Anzio. He said 'We pray that when the job is done, the statesmen of the world will make sure the lasting peace for which these men made the supreme sacrifice. All over the world our soldiers sleep beneath the crosses. It is a challenge to us--all Allied nations--to insure that they do not and have not died in vain'.--Army pictorial photo--Serviced by Rome OWI full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6478." Anzio, Italy. 30 May 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.593
Date: 
05/30/1945
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Unit: 
Fifth Army
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Topical Subjects: 
Generals--American--Italy
Public speaking--Italy
Memorial rites & ceremonies--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: 
Anzio
Latitude: 
41.450
Longitude: 
12.617
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Generals--American--Italy
Public speaking--Italy
Memorial rites & ceremonies--Italy