P-47 Thunderbolts flying in formation during aerial review in Udine, Italy, May 1945
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Photograph. P-47 Thunderbolts flying in formation (in the shape of the number "79") during aerial review; view from ground looking up. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/29/45--USAAF Thunderbolts spell their fighter group number--During an aerial review of the Allied Desert Airforce, above Campoformido Airfield, Udine, Northern Italy, USAAF Thunderbolts of the 79th Fighter Group fly in novel and difficult formation. The aircraft form into the figures, 7 and 9, to designate the number of their group which operates under the desert air force. The review was held on May 28th, 1945.--RAF photo--serviced by Rome OWI Full. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6453."Udine, Italy. 29 May 1945
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05/29/1945
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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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Udine
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46.062
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13.242
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Fighter planes--American--Italy
Military parades & ceremonies--Italy