Charred frames of burned airplanes in the hangar deck of the USS Saratoga, Pacific Ocean, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Two servicemen talk amidst the charred skeletons of burned airplanes in the hangar deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3). Official Caption: "This is the Saratoga's hangar deck after the fires were finally conquered. Charred skeletons of planes reveal the extent of the raging inferno that swept the carrier off Iwo Jima as a result of Japanese bombs and suicide planes. Despite her heavy damage, she was able to resume flight operations within a few hours, taking aboard her own planes and those of another carrier damaged in the vicinity.--(Seventh in a series of 9). 7217-7." Pacific Ocean. 1945
Image Information
Donor:
Accession Number:
Date:
1945
Hometown:
Branch:
Theater of Service:
Unit:
Campaign / Event:
POW / KIA:
Topical Subjects:
Collection Level:
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:
Pacific Ocean
Latitude:
-0.500
Longitude:
-91.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Fires--Pacific Ocean
War damage--Pacific Ocean
Airplanes--American--Pacific Ocean
Aircraft carriers--American--Pacific Ocean