Aerial photograph of the muddy, crater-covered terrain of Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of the muddy, crater-covered terrain of Okinawa. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/16/45--Okinawa after the battle--This is the Okinawa terrain over which the U.S. Tenth Army had to fight over inch by inch to outflank the Japanese fortress City of Shuri. The earth is pocked by shell craters and torn by tank treads, and the whole area is a morass as a result of heavy rains. Okinawa, conquered on June 20, is being developed into a major U.S. base for additional attacks on the enemy homeland only 375 miles (600 km) away.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7112." Okinawa, Japan.16 July 1945
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07/16/1945
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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:
Aerial photographs--Okinawa
War damage--Okinawa
Craters--Okinawa
Mountains--Okinawa