Airplane accident on the deck of the carrier USS Saratoga, Pacific Ocean, 1945

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Photograph. Airplane accident on the littered deck of the carrier USS Saratoga; one plane is burning next to two undamaged planes. Official Caption: [damaged] ". . . the Saratoga's flight deck that is littered. . . aded, are undamaged but others, preparing. . . came a roaring mass of twisted steel and. . . ing the task of fire fighters extremely. . . ide keep watch for other enemy attackers. 7217-3." Pacific Ocean. 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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Pacific Ocean
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-0.500
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-91.000
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Aircraft carriers--American--Pacific Ocean
Aircraft accidents--Pacific Ocean