Aerial photograph of the bombing of a Japanese aircraft factory near Kure, Japan, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of the bombing of a Japanese aircraft factory. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--Japanese aircraft plant battered--Bombs from U.S. B-29 Superfortresses strike the Hiro Naval aircraft factory in daylight. The factory, near the enemy naval base of Kure, produces aircraft engines and air frames. In the top photo (No. 1 ), the first results of the attack are visible, while the lower photo shows direct hits blanketing the target on the Japanese home island of Honshu.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(List A out) 6921."Near Kure, Japan. 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.
Geography:
Kure
Latitude:
34.233
Longitude:
132.567
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial bombings--Japan
Aerial photographs--Japan
Factories--Japan