Worker cutting away damaged portion of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, United States, 1945
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Photograph. Worker cutting away damaged portion of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3). Official Caption: "A worker cuts away battle damage on the Carrier Saratoga, clearing a hole caused by one of the Japanese bombs that hit the vessel off Iwo Jima Island in the Pacific. The Carrier was temporarily repaired at an advanced Pacific base before continuing to the United States where she was refitted and made fit for sea in less than two months. (Eighth in a series of 9) 7217-8." United States. 1945
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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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Maintenance & repair--United States
War damage
Aircraft carriers--American--United States