A group of men viewing a model of a new American parachute, 1945
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Photograph. A group of men, including a sailor, viewing a model of a new American parachute in a room with a high ceiling. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/4/45--Improved Parachutes--This new American parachute permits precision dropping of personnel and supplies. Unlike older models, this is a perfect hemisphere and the shape eliminates oscillation. Its precision also simplifies mine laying by plane, now being carried out by U.S. planes in Japanese waters. - Acme photo through Rome OWI - Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 6995."Location unknown. 4 July 1945
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07/04/1945
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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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Parachutes--American
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