View from inside an American landing craft carrying Australian troops, Sadau, Borneo, 1945
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Photograph. View from inside an American landing craft carrying Australian troops towards the war damaged shoreline of the island of Sadu. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/13/45--A U.S. Navy-manned landing craft carries Australians toward the bombed, smoking shore of Sadu [Sadau], small island six miles (10 km.) northwest of Tarakan, off the East coast of Borneo, on April 29, 1945. This landing and subsequent seizure of Tarakan preceded the surprise landings of the Australians on Borneo, announced June 11--PNT Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6691." Sadau Island, Tarakan, Borneo.13 June 1945
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06/13/1945
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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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Tarakan, Pulau
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--Australian--Borneo
Landing craft--American--Borneo
Coastlines--Borneo
Amphibious operations--Borneo