A starving prisoner is carried by comrades at the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 1945

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Photograph. Fellow prisoners carrying a starving prisoner, who previously escaped, into liberated Wöbbelin concentration camp. Official Caption: "A prisoner who escaped from the Wobbelin Camp a few days before its liberation dropped from starvation outside the enclosure as he tried to make his way back to a source of food. Fellow prisoners are carrying him back into the camp under direction of U.S. Airborne Division soldiers. 6531 B."”Wöbbelin, Germany. May 1945

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1945-05-
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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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Wöbbelin
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53.400
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11.500
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Concentration camps--Germany
Prisoners--Germany
Starvation--Germany
Soldiers--American--Germany