Major General Claire L. Chennault holds up Chinese child, China, 1945
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Photograph. American Major General Claire L. Chennault holding Chinese child during parting ceremony. Official Caption: "25/8/45 Major General Claire L. Chennault bids farewell to China. General Chennault says farewell to young China as he departs from Kunning [sic] on his return to the United States. The retiring 14th Air Force commander was honored by many prominent Chinese friends who came to say goodbye. (OWI Staff Photo) Through USIS Rome."Kunming, China. 25 August 1945
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08/25/1945
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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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Kunming
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25.067
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102.683
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Generals--American--China
Children--China
Military uniforms--American--China