U.S. serviceman John Kistel sitting in wheelchair near newly-built ramp, Chicago, Illinois, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Private First Class John Kistel sitting in wheelchair while his mother finalizes the building of a ramp to the porch of their home. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/27/45--Mother Aids Her Wounded Son--U.S. Private First Class John Kistel, Infantry Radioman who lost both legs in the European theater of war waits in a wheel chair while his mother puts the finishing touches on a ramp from the sidewalk to the porch of the Kistel home in Chicago. American war casualties now total more than one million.--Acme photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7228."Chicago, Illinois. 27 July 1945
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07/27/1945
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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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Chicago
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41.850
Longitude:
-87.650
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Illinois
Wheelchairs
Mothers--Illinois
War casualties--Illinois
Veterans--American
Inclined planes--Illinois