Portrait of Ferruccio Parri, Italy, 1945

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Photograph, portrait photograph of Ferruccio Parri, one-time Deputy Commander of the North Italian Partisans and future Italian Prime Minister. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--Italian leader--Ferrucio [sic] Parri, deputy commander of the North Italian Partisans, was asked on June 17, 1945, by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, to form a new Italian cabinet, succeeding the government of Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, resigned. Parri, an opponent of Fascism from its beginnings, served a total of nine years in Mussolini's jails. He was born in Genoa 55 years ago, served in the 1914-18 war as an infantry officer and edited Corriere Della Sera, Milan's great newspaper, until ousted by the Fascists. He later published underground papers and helped found the Action Party.--OWI Staff photo approved by appropriate military authority--serviced by Rome OWI (D List) 6782."”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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Italia
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42.833
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12.833
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Government officials--Italian--Italy
Underground movements--Italy
Portrait photographs--Italy