A dry dock destined for the Pacific theatre is moved through the Panama Canal, 1945
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Photograph. Tugboats pushing a U.S. Navy floating dry dock, turned on its side, through the Panama Canal. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/18/45--Drydock in canal--Too wide to pass through the Panama Canal in orthodox fashion, this U.S. Navy floating drydock was careened onto its beam for the trip through the canal"s Culebra cut. The drydock accommodates a cruiser or several small warships at one time and is destined for advance Pacific bases.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7133." Panama Canal. 18 July 1945
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07/18/1945
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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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Panamá, Canal de
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9.333
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-79.883
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Naval yards & naval stations--American--Panama
Tugboats--Panama
Canals--Panama