Launching of the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, New York City, 1945

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Photograph. Water fills the dry dock in which the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt was built, as the aircraft carrier was floated for the first time. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/6/45--U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt Launched--Water flows into the drydock in which the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt was built, as the huge aircraft carrier us floated for the first time in New York City. The 45,000-ton ship, one of a class of three of the largest U.S. war ships ever built, will carry more than 80 twin-engined planes of a new type and an undisclosed but large number of anti-aircraft guns, ranging up to five inches (127 mm.) in size. The giant carrier was completed in the record time of 17 months. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, widow of the U.S. president for whom the ship was named, addressed the shipyard workers and U.S. servicemen and women who attended the christening ceremony.--PNT photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6541." New York, New York. 6 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.332
Date: 
06/06/1945
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Unit: 
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42)
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Topical Subjects: 
Aircraft carriers--American--New York
Naval yards & naval stations--New York
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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: 
New York
Latitude: 
40.700
Longitude: 
-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Aircraft carriers--American--New York
Naval yards & naval stations--New York