American B-24 bomber stuck in mud, March 1944

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Photograph. Servicemen trying to free American B-24 bomber stuck in mud with tractor. Official Caption (Front): "3-18-44 B-24 128363 Right landing 350 gear stuck in mud." Official Caption (Reverse): "Photo Section 11th Air Depot Group. Confidential." Probably Europe. 18 March 1944

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03/18/1944
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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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Europe
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Bombers--American--Europe
Mud--Europe
Tractors--Europe