Italian man operating American machinery at a Fiat factory, Italy, July 1945
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Photograph. Italian man operating American machinery at a Fiat factory. Official Caption: "(Series of four) Rome, 7/16/45--Italian industry recovering--Although hampered by a shortage of coal, Fiat's Mirafiore plant at Turin is now turning out 15 trucks a day. A skilled workman is shown cutting gears with an American machine tool.--OWI staff photo approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI. 7107 A." Turin, Italy. 16 July 1945
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07/16/1945
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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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Torino
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45.050
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7.667
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Metalwork--Italian--Italy
Factories--Italian--Italy
Men--Italy