U.S. military officers Oxx, Evans, and Parsons receiving the Cross of Merit, Naples, Italy, 1945

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Photograph. Marquis Carlo Marcesa di Oamerano presents a medal to three U.S. military officers: Brigadier General Francis H. Oxx, Colonel H. S. Evans, and Colonel Milton B. Parsons. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/4/45--U.S. officers receive Cross of Merit--Three U.S. officers in Naples are pictured with the Marquis Carlo Marcesa di Oamerano, Grand Bali and Grand Prior of the Naples District, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, who has just presented the Americans with the Order's First Class Cross of Merit. Pictured are (Left to Right) Brig. Gen. Francis H. Oxx, Commander of the Peninsular Base Section; the Marquis, Col. H. S. Evans, Commander Officer of the Southern District Peninsular Base Section, and Col. Milton B. Parsons, Provost Marshall of the Peninsular Base Section.--Army Pictorial Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI Full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6512." Naples, Italy. 4 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.391
Date: 
06/04/1945
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Government officials--Italian--Italy
Generals--American--Italy
Military officers--American--Italy
Military decorations--Italy
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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: 
Napoli
Latitude: 
40.833
Longitude: 
14.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Government officials--Italian--Italy
Generals--American--Italy
Military officers--American--Italy
Military decorations--Italy