Ground crewmen of the Luftwaffe Allied Desert Air Force in Klagenfurt, Austria, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Ground crewmen of the Allied Desert Air Force relaxing in the shade of a German airplane wing; clotheslines hanging from the wings. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/31/45--New uses for Luftwaffe--Ground crewmen of the Allied Desert Air Force relax in the shade of a German airplane wing at Klagenfurt, Austria. The captured enemy aircraft are also convenient for handing out laundry.--RAF photo through OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI full. 6483." Klagenfurt, Austria. 31 May 1945
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05/31/1945
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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.
Geography:
Klagenfurt
Latitude:
46.633
Longitude:
14.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Adaptive reuse--Austria
Fighter planes--German--Austria
Laundry--Austria
Soldiers--Austria
Leisure--Austria