Technician removing radioactive phosphorus from "atom smasher", St. Louis, Missouri, 1945

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Photograph. Technician removing radioactive phosphorus from "atom smasher". Official Caption: "The technician, protected by a mask and apron, is removing the red phosphorus that has been rendered radioactive in the 'atom smasher' by the powerful beam of charged deuterons. 6533-C." St. Louis, Missouri. 1945

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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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Saint Louis
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38.617
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-90.183
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Radioactive substances--Missouri