Injured veterans being taught how to drive specially-built automobiles, 1945

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Photograph. Legless veterans in wheelchairs being taught how to drive specially-built automobiles at a veterans hospital. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/27/45--Special cars for legless veterans--Waiting their turn to drive specially-built automobiles are a group of legless war veterans at a U.S. veterans hospital. The men are given lessons in driving as part of the hospital's rehabilitation program. Many private and government agencies in the United States have worked out arrangements for employing disabled veterans. As early as February, 1945, over 150,000 men disabled in the war had found war jobs immediately upon their discharge from hospitals.--Acme photo through Rome OWI.--Approved by appropriate military authority. (List A out) 7227." United States. 27 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.221
Date: 
07/27/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Automobiles--American--United States
Disabled veterans--American--United States
Wheelchairs
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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: 
United States
Latitude: 
38.000
Longitude: 
-98.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Automobiles--American--United States
Disabled veterans--American--United States
Wheelchairs