Reconversion begins at Ford Motor Company plant, Chester, Pennsylvania, August 1945
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Photograph. Workers commemorate the first civilian truck coming off the assembly line as reconversion begins at Ford Motor Company plant. Official Caption: "8/48/45 [sic]. Ford Motor Company turns out civilian trucks as reconversion begins in U.S. The first civilian truck comes off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company's huge plant inthe [sic] city of Chester, in the eastern U.S. state of Pensylvania [sic] on August 13, 1945, as reconversion from the manufacture of Sherman tanks (background) gets under way. Photo through U.S.I.S. Rome 43461-pnt. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority (d list out)." Chester, Pennsylvania. 13 August 1945
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08/13/1945
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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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Chester
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39.833
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-75.350
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Trucks--American--Pennsylvania
Tanks (Military science)--American--Pennsylvania
Factories--Pennsylvania
Assembly-line methods--Pennsylvania
Commemorations--Pennsylvania