Female mechanics working on an airplane engine, California, July 1945
Description:
Photograph. Female mechanics working on an airplane engine; one woman is sitting on the propeller spinner dome. Official Caption: "Rome 7/27/45--Women Aviation Mechanics at Work [illegible] mechanics at a California base work on one of the four [illegible] destined for use in the Pacific. More than 86,000 [illegible] (U.S. Navy women's reserve) engaged in nearly every [illegible] Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by Appropriate [illegible]."California. 27 July 1945
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07/27/1945
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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.
Geography:
California
Latitude:
37.000
Longitude:
-119.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Mechanics (Persons)--California
Women--Military service--California
Airplane propellers--California