American B-29 Superfortress flying over Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 1945
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Photograph. American B-29 Superfortress flying over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima; view from the water. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/2/45--B-29 over Iwo Jima--An American B-29 Superfortress circles over the volcanic peak of Mt. Suribachi on the southern end of Iwo Jima, former Japanese bastion captured on March 15, 1945. The island's three airfields, improved and enlarged, have proved invaluable in the stepped-up offensive against the Japanese homeland only 750 miles (1200 KM) away.--Coast Guard photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 6969." Iwo Jima, Japan. 02 July 1945
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07/02/1945
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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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Iō-jima
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24.783
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141.333
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Bombers--American--Iwo Jima
Mountains--Iwo Jima