Italian guardsmen line up to turn in their arms, Trieste, June 1945
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Photograph. Long line of Italian guardsmen (Guardia del Populo) turning in their arms. Official Caption: "Rome. 6/29/45--Italian guardsmen turn in arms--Members of the Guardia del Populo, a group of 1500 police that helped maintain order in Trieste after its liberation, line up in the north Italian port city to turn in their arms after the Allied Military Government assumed control.--British official photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced full. 6939." Trieste, Italy. 29 June 1945
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06/29/1945
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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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Trieste
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45.649
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13.780
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Police--Italy
Rifles--Italian--Italy
Uniform--Italy