Two sections of a large floating dry dock being welded together, Pacific Ocean, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. Two sections of a large floating dry dock being welded together. Official Caption: "(Series of four) Rome, 7/16/45--Floating drydocks serve U.S. fleet--Two of the ten sections of a huge floating drydock are welded together at a U.S. advance Naval base in the Pacific. When the drydock, shipping to the base in sections, is assembled it will be able to handle the largest battleship afloat, or repair two or more smaller craft simultaneously, several of the huge docks are now is [sic] service in the Pacific, saving many vessels from the long trip to the U.S. for repairs.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate U.S. authority (List A out) 7125-1." 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.
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Pacific Ocean
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-0.500
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-91.000
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Naval yards & naval stations--American--Pacific Ocean