Two damaged U.S. Navy ships in a floating dry dock, Pacific Ocean, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of two damaged U.S. Navy ships in a floating dry dock. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/16/45--Two battle-damaged U.S. Navy ships receive simultaneous attention in this huge floating drydock which has a capacity of 100,000 tons. Floating machine shops secured alongside provide additional facilities for repairs to damaged vessels at advance Pacific bases, obviating a long voyage home.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7125-3." Pacific Ocean. 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.
Geography:
Pacific Ocean
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-0.500
Longitude:
-91.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Ships--American--Pacific Ocean
Maintenance & repair--Pacific Ocean
Naval yards & naval stations--American--Pacific Ocean