U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz meeting junior officers of HMS King George V, Guam, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz meeting junior officers of HMS King George V; British Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bernard H. Rawlings is standing by his side. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/1/45--Nimitz meets British Naval officers--U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of Allied Naval Forces in the Pacific, meets junior officers of HMS King George V during a visit aboard the British battleship at Guam, site of Admiral Nimitz' headquarters in the Central Pacific. At the left is Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bernard H. Rawlings, Commander of a British task force operating with the U.S. Pacific fleet against the Japanese.--Navy photo Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out) 6968." 01 July 1945
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07/01/1945
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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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Guam
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13.467
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144.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Admirals--American--Guam
Admirals--British--Guam
Military uniforms--American--Guam
Military uniforms--British--Guam
Shaking hands--Guam