Crewmen fighting fires on the deck of the USS Saratoga, Pacific Ocean, February 1945
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Photograph. Crewmen fighting fires on the deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3). Note damaged airplane at center of picture. Official Caption: "Valiant crewmen of the Saratoga make headway in fighting the flames but the deck is still a scene of burning planes, fire hoses, splashed chemicals, and debris. One Seaman (foreground) plays a hose on the deck from the superstructure. (Sixth in a series of 9) 7217-6." Pacific Ocean. February 1945
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1945-02-
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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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Pacific Ocean
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-0.500
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-91.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aircraft carriers--American--Pacific Ocean
Fires--Pacific Ocean
Military personnel---American--Pacific Ocean
Decks (Ships)--American--Pacific Ocean
Fire fighting--Pacific Ocean