Airplane engine being tested on an Aviation Repair Vessel (ARV), 1945
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Photograph. Mechanics testing an airplane engine aboard a new aviation repair ship, the USS Chloris (ARVE-4). Official Caption: "Rome, 7/20/45--Engine Repair Vessel--The U.S.S. Chloris is a new kind of aircraft repair vessel. It was built on an LST (landing ship, tanks) hull and contains everything necessary to renew damaged engines. Its crew includes 125 expert mechanics. A companion ship will repair plane fuselages and wings. In this photo, a huge engine roars in a test stand on the deck.--Wide world through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(2 in a series of 2--List A out). 7153." Location unknown. 20 July 1945
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07/20/1945
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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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Ships--American
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