Guamanian children go to school in a U.S. Navy truck, Marianas Islands, 1945
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Photograph. Guamanian children crowd the back of an American military truck on their way to school. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--Guam Children Ride to School--Children on Guam, Central Pacific Marianas Island which American forces liberated from the Japanese in August, 1944, are carried to school in a U.S. Navy truck. The Japanese had kept the schools closed for two years.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 6920."Guam, Mariana Islands. 29 June 1945
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06/29/1945
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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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Children--Guam
Trucks--American--Guam
Clothing & dress--Guam
Students--Guamanian--Guam