Cutaway illustration of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1945
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Photograph. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/2/45—Superfortress interior--This cutaway drawing shows the interior of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, huge U.S. bomber which is pounding military and industrial targets in the Japanese home islands. In the nose section sit the bombardier, pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, radio operator and navigator. A crew member is shown crawling through the long tunnel which spans the two bomb bays between nose and midsection. At the far end of the tunnel is the gunner's compartment, and next to that is the crew compartment, containing bunks. The tail gunner is in the extreme end of the fuselage.--Photo approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out). 2 July 1945
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07/02/1945
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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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