Uranium supplied to Allies at Fort Smith, Canada, 1945
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Photograph. Bags of uranium from a shipment are unloaded as an American soldier stands guard. Official Caption: "Rome 8/20/45 Uranium supplied to Allies by Canada. A U.S. soldier stands guard as a shipment of uranium is unloaded and checked at Fort Smith ?Canada (sic). This ore is the raw material on which the source of power in the new atomic bomb depends. Photo serviced through USIS, Rome. 433LL+P[??]. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. (D list out)." Fort Smith, Canada. 20 August 1945
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08/20/1945
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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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Fort Smith
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60.017
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-111.917
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Chemicals
Soldiers--American--Canada
Rifles--American
Laborers--Canada
Atomic bombs--American--Canada