Water from the Po River flows down an irrigation canal in Italy, 1945

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Photograph. Water from the Po River flows down an irrigation canal past an American agricultural officer and a local man. Official Caption: (Series of 3) Rome, 7/7/45. Rice growing in Italy. "Water from the Po River flows down an irrigation canal to a rice field. An American Agricultural Officer of the Allied Military Government which is assisting Italians with the rice crop talks to the landowner.--Rome OWI 7027 C." Italy. 7 July 1945

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07/07/1945
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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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Italia
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42.833
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12.833
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Irrigation canals & flumes--Italy
Military officers--American--Italy