Burning Japanese bomber in the Pacific Ocean, 1945
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Photograph. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/9/45--End of Japanese Bomber--Flames gush from a Japanese 'Mavis' patrol bomber after it was brought down by U.S. Navy Coronado bombers in the Western Pacific. The enemy plane was trying to flee to its home base when overtaken and destroyed. Allied actions by June 1 had reduced Japanese combat plane strength to a little more than 3000 units, or about three-fifths of the total of 18 months previously.--Navy Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(List A Out) 7036." Pacific Ocean. 9 July 1945
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07/09/1945
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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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Pacific Ocean
Latitude:
-0.500
Longitude:
-91.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bombers--Japanese--Pacific Ocean
Fires--Pacific Ocean