U.S. Navy SC-1 Seahawk scout seaplane in flight
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Photograph. U.S. Navy SC-1 Seahawk scout seaplane in flight; viewed from above. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/11/45--New Navy Seaplane--The U.S. Navy's new SC-1 'Seahawk,' a fast, single-plane scout-observation float plane climbs rapidly after taking off from the water. The plane is used by cruisers and battleships to spot gunfire, search out enemy ships and to rescue persons from the sea. The Seahawk is twice as fast as the 'Kingfisher' it replaces.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7087." Location unknown. 11 July 1945
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07/11/1945
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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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Seaplanes--American