Italian translators transcribing a BBC broadcast into German, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. Italian translators transcribing an English radio broadcast for German prisoners of war (POWs); they are wearing headphones and sitting at typewriters, radio equipment next to them. Official Caption: "Italian Civilian Technicians who speak German and English as well, take down a BBC broadcast in German for use in the daily 'Lagerpost' at the Fifth Army POW Camp in Italy. 6793." Italy. 1945
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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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Italia
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42.833
Longitude:
12.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Translators--Italy
Typewriters--Italy
Radio broadcasting--Italy
Prisoners of war--German--Italy