Man handing package over to pilot of hovering helicopter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description:
Photograph. Man sitting on a ladder and handing a package to a man in the cockpit of a hovering helicopter. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/13/45--Loading in Midair--Hovering ten feet off the ground, the U.S. Army's experimental helicopter XR-8 takes on a package during a demonstration near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.--International News Photo taken through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7097." Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 13 July 1945
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07/13/1945
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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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Philadelphia
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39.950
Longitude:
-75.150
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Helicopters--American--Pennsylvania
Ladders--Pennsylvania