An American Marine holds a toddler, Okinawa Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Smiling American Marine holds a Okinawan child in his arms. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/20/45--A Marine makes friends--An American Marine holds a tiny inhabitant of Okinawa Island that is being wrested from the Japanese. Thousands of civilians have returned to their villages from the hills as the Americans advanced. U.S. President Harry S. Truman said on June 1, 1945: We have no desire or intention to destroy or enslave the Japanese people. But only surrender can prevent the kind of ruin which they have seen come to Germany as a result of continued, useless resistance.--Marine Corps Photo through OWI--approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out) 6808."Okinawa, Japan. 20 June 1945
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06/20/1945
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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
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Marines (Military personnel)--Okinawa
Children--Okinawa
Clothing & dress--Okinawa
Smiling--Okinawa