Veteran amputee learning to drive an automobile, Washington, D. C., 1945
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Photograph. Veteran amputee learning to drive an automobile during rehabilitation program. Official Caption: "Rome. 20/8/1945. U.S. soldier with artificial arm learns to drive automobile. A U.S. Army man, wearing an artificial arm, learns to drive an automobile at Walter Reed Hospital, in Washington, the U.S. capital. As part of the reconditioning program at the Army hospital, amputees learn many new recreational and vocational skills. Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome 43207-FO. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority (C list only)." Walter Reed Hospital, Washington D.C. 20 August 1945
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08/20/1945
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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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District of Columbia
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38.833
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-77.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Veterans--American--District of Columbia
Artificial limbs
Automobiles--American--District of Columbia