U.S. Army Air Force P-80 Shooting Star, United States, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Army Air Force P-80 Shooting Star in flight; landscape visible below. Official Caption: "Rome 8/13/45 U.S. Jet propelled combat plane in flight. The U.S. Army's first jet-propelled combat plane--the new P-80 Shooting Star--is shown in flight with auxiliary fuel tanks attached to the ends of its new type wings. The plane is capable of excess of 550 miles (715 Km.) an hour. Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome 43I33. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority (D list out)." United States. 13 August 1945
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08/13/1945
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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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United States
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38.000
Longitude:
-98.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Fighter planes--American--United States
Fuel tanks