Fairchild C-82 Packet transport plane leaving assembly line, United States, 1945
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Photograph. Rear view of Fairchild C-82 Packet transport plane being pushed out of hangar to airfield; other aircraft in background. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/3/45--New U.S. cargo plane leaves assembly line--Workmen at the Fairchild Aircraft Company in the U.S. push a C-82 Packet from the assembly line to the airfield. This huge new U.S. Army plane has a cargo capacity of 2312 cubic feet (64.73 cu. meters). Its square fuselage, with straight sides, level floor and two big rear doors is designed for easy loading. The Packet's two 2100 H.P. engines give it a range of 3500 miles (5600 km).--International photo approved by appropriate authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out). 6976." United States. 3 July 1945
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07/03/1945
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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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United States
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38.000
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-98.000
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Transport planes--American--United States