U.S. technicians working on a jet engine, New York, 1945

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Photograph. Two U.S. technicians working on a jet engine in a factory. Official Caption: “Rome 8/14/45. U.S. technicians complete work on turbo jet engine. Technicians in a General Electric Company plant in the eastern U.S. state of New York complete work on a turbo jet airplane engine which will be used to provide power in a propeller-less P-59A Fighter plane. The jet engine has only one-tenth the number of moving parts of an ordinary reciprocating engine. The engine requires no warming up and the pilot can take off one minute after pressing the starter button in the jet-propelled plane. Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome. 43228. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. For display only. (D List out) Not for publication.” New York, United States. 14 August 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.730
Date: 
08/14/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Airplane engines--New York
Airplane industry--New York
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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.
Geography: 
New York
Latitude: 
40.700
Longitude: 
-74.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Airplane engines--New York
Airplane industry--New York