Meeting of combined Chinese-American military staff, Chungking, China, 1945

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Photograph. Meeting of combined Chinese-American military staff. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/25/45--Planning Action in China--Lieutenant General Albert C. Wedemeyer (center), Commander of U.S. military forces in China and Chief of Staff to China's Generalissimo Chiank Kai-Shek, presides over a meeting of the combined Chinese-American staff in Chungking. Members are (l to r): General Chang Ping-Chun, Head of the Ministry of Military Operations; General Chu Shih-Ming, former Military Attaché of the Chinese Embassy in Washington; General Chien Ta-Chun, personal Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo; General Wedemeyer; Brigadier General Marvin E. Gross, acting Chief of Staff of U.S. Forces in the China theater; General Liu Fei, Vice Minister of Military Operations; Colonel L. G. Clarke, assistant Chief of Staff, U.S. forces, and General His En-Sui, Director of the Chinese Services of Supply.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (list A out). 7199." Chungking, China. 25 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.574
Date: 
07/25/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Meetings--China
Generals--American--China
Military officers--American--China
Military officers--Chinese--China
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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: 
Chongqing
Latitude: 
29.562
Longitude: 
106.559
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Meetings--China
Generals--American--China
Military officers--American--China
Military officers--Chinese--China