Royal Air Force pilot Charles Booth learning to control a gondola in Venice, Italy, 1945
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Photograph. Royal Air Force pilot Charles Booth being taught how to control a gondola by an Italian gondolier in Venice. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/11/45--RAF pilot enjoys undamaged Venice--R.A.F. [Royal Air Force] pilot officer Charles Booth learns to 'pilot' a gondola while on his way from Venice to the airfield at the Venice Lido. He especially enjoys the experience because, as a kittyhawk pilot of the desert air force he had bombed shipping at Venice and had been briefed to avoid damaging the city itself.--British official photo--Serviced by Rome OWI to list D. Approved by appropriate military authority. 6655.” Venice, Italy. 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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Venezia
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45.583
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12.567
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military air pilots--British--Italy
Gondolas--Italian--Italy
Gondoliers