Partially built aircraft carrier USS Iwo Jima in the United States, 1945
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Photograph. Partially built aircraft carrier USS Iwo Jima (CV-46). Official Caption: "8/28/45--Construction stopped on U.S. warship. This is as far as construction had gone on the U.S. Essex-class Aircraft Carrier Iwo Jima when following the August 10, 1945, Japanese surrender offer, the Navy Department announced the cancellation of its contract for completion. Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome 43462-PPA. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. D List out." United States. 28 August 1945
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08/28/1945
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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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United States
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38.000
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-98.000
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Aircraft carriers--American--United States