German spy Josef Schoner slumping on the stake after being shot by firing squad, Germany, June 1945
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Photograph. German spy Josef Schoner slumping on the stake after being shot by firing squad. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/12/45--German youths die for espionage--Seventeen-year-old Josef Schoner slumps at the stake after his execution, June 1, 1945, by a U.S. Ninth Army firing squad for espionage against the U.S. He and Heinz Petry, 16-year-old German, were convicted and shot on the same day near Braunschweig, Germany.--U.S. Signal Corps Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6679." Near Rome. 1 June 1945
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06/01/1945
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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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Roma
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41.900
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12.483
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Executions--Italy
Military personnel--American--Italy