Italian repatriates in Bolzano, Italy, June 1945

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Photograph. Italian repatriates seated in rows in an outdoor stadium. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/18/45--Gateway for Italian repatriates--Established on May 17, the Allied Commission's repatriation center at Bolzano has cleared an average of 2000 Italians a day, homeward bound from German labor and prisoner of war camps. The refugees reach Bolzano from Innsbruck, Austria, in convoys after being screened and processed. At Bolzano, they are sent by truck to key centers in Italy from where they are forwarded to their homes. Many travel in captured German trucks driven by German prisoners of war; other trucks are provided by the U.S. Army, the Italian Red Cross, the Vatican and Italian civilian agencies.--OWI staff photos approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI to list D. 6455?."”Bolzano, Italy. 18 June 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.256
Date: 
06/18/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Refugees--Italian--Italy
Crowds--Italy
Stadiums--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: 
Bolzano
Latitude: 
46.517
Longitude: 
11.367
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Refugees--Italian--Italy
Crowds--Italy
Stadiums--Italy