Aeronca Champion light utility aircraft, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. Aeronca Champion light utility aircraft in flight; view from another plane, landscape below. Official Caption: “Rome 9/24/45. 'AERONCA CHAMPION' NEWLY DESIGNED PEACETIME PLACE, PRODUCED IN U.S. The newly designed Aeronca Champion is one of the first light civilian planes to roll from U.S. assembly lines. The Champion has a 65 horse-power engine. It has a cruising speed of 90 miles (144 km.) per hour, and lands at 35 miles (46 km) per hour. Its cruising range is 270 miles (432 km). The new plane will climb 500 feet (150 meters) per minute. It seats two persons, one behind the other. The cost is $2,095. Photo through Rome U.S.I.S.43969--UN-PNT.” Location unknown. 24 September 1945
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09/24/1945
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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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Airplanes--American