U.S. soldiers marching in Hitler Barracks Square, Berlin, Germany, July 1945
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Photograph. U.S. soldiers marching in Hitler Barracks Square with a military band at left. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/20/45--Americans enter Berlin--U.S. soldiers march out of the Hitler Barracks Square in Berlin to signify the occupation of the U.S. Zone in the German capital. The American flag and the Russian hammer and sickle fly over the barracks which formerly was the Kaiser Wilhelm Cadet School.--Acme photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (B List out) 7159." Berlin, Germany. 20 July 1945
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07/20/1945
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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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Berlin
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52.517
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13.400
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Germany
Marching--Germany
Military bands--American--Germany
Flags--American
Flags--Russian