British civilians wave goodbye to American airmen taking off from Great Britain, 1945
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Photograph. British crowd waving goodbye to a B-24 Liberator moving down a runway. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/23/45--Eighth Air Force Says Goodbye--British friends wave goodbye to the last B-24 Liberator of the Second Air Division, U.S. 8th Air Force, as it takes off in the first lap of its trip to the United States and thence to the Pacific. These American airmen had been stationed in this British town for almost three years.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(list B out). 7177."Great Britain. 23 July 1945
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07/23/1945
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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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England
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53.000
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-2.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bombers--American--England
Farewells--England
Crowds--England