First ship constructed for peacetime commerce at Kearny, New Jersey, 1945
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Photograph. Cargo ship in dock; two workers looking on. Official Caption: "Rome, 8/29/45--U.S. Cargo Carrier Delivered for Peacetime Trade--American workers view the first ship constructed for peacetime commerce at U.S. Steel's federal shipyard at Kearny in the eastern U.S. state of New Jersey. The 12600 cargo carrier, Tillie Lykes, was delivered to her owner on August 17, 1945, three days after U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman announced Japan's unconditional surrender. The vessel's home port will be New Orleans, in the southern U.S. Louisiana, nad [sic] she will be assigned to trade with the Orient. Photo through U. S. I. S. 43513- FF. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. (D list out)." Kearny, New Jersey, United States. 29 August 1945
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08/29/1945
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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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Kearny
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40.767
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-74.133
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Cargo ships--American--New Jersey