Smoke rises from a failed kamikaze attack near a U.S. aircraft carrier, Okinawa Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Side view of U.S. aircraft carrier nearly struck by a Japanese suicide plane. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/18/45--Vain Suicide--A Japanese plane plunges toward the Pacific, shot down by anti-aircraft fire before it could make its suicide crash against a U.S. warship. It fell into the water near the Essex-class aircraft carrier in the Okinawa area.--Navy Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A Out) 7136." Near Okinawa Island, Japan. 18 July 1945
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07/18/1945
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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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Okinawa-jima
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Suicides--Okinawa
Aircraft carriers--American--Okinawa
Naval battles--Okinawa