Aerial photograph of Hiroshima, Japan, after detonation of atomic bomb, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of the leveled cityscape of Hiroshima after detonation of the first American atomic bomb dropped on Japan. Official Caption: "Rome. 9/12/45. Hiroshima after Being Hit by First Atomic Bomb. This airview shows Hiroshima after an atomic bomb--the first ever used--was dropped on the Japanese industrial city on August 5, 1945 [sic]. Four and one-tenth square miles or 60 per cent of the city were wiped out. The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki Aug. 8 [sic]. Japan surrendered unconditionally to the allies on August 14. U.S. Signal Corps Photo thru U. S. I. S. Rome. (RX 7512)."Hiroshima, Japan. 12 September 1945
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09/12/1945
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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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Hiroshima
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34.383
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132.450
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial photographs--Japan
Cityscapes--Japan
Atomic bombs--American--Japan
War damage--Japan