Cabin in the Presidential C-54 Skymaster, 1945
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Photograph. Cabin aboard the U.S. President's C-54 Skymaster, dubbed the 'Sacred Cow'. Official Caption: "This is the cabin of the special C-54 plane used by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his successor, Harry S. Truman. The swivel chair can be raised or lowered and the couch can be converted into a bed. The table can be turned or moved forward on special tracks. The picture is reminiscent of the late President's fondness for ships.--Rome OWI (2 in a series) 7140-2." Location unknown. Circa 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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