U.S. fighter planes being loaded onto a ship for transfer to the Pacific Theater, Liverpool, England, 1945
Description:
Photograph. U.S. fighter planes being loaded onto a ship for transfer to the Pacific Theater; one plane is on the bed of a truck in the foreground. Official Caption: "U.S. fighter planes shipped home for war against Japan. Huge 60-ton cranes on the Liverpool docks lift a six-three-quarter ton P-17 Thunderbolt to the flight deck of a grain ship converted into a pocket aircraft carrier. The ships now transport 34 P-47 Thunderbolts or 43 P-51 Mustangs back to the U.S. on each voyage. USSTAF photo through U. S. I. S. Rome. Certified as passed by U.S. Field Censor ( A and B Lists out)." Liverpool, England. Circa 1945
Image Information
Donor:
Accession Number:
Date:
1945
Hometown:
Branch:
Theater of Service:
POW / KIA:
Topical Subjects:
Collection Level:
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.
Geography:
Liverpool
Latitude:
53.417
Longitude:
-3.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Fighter planes--American--England