American Marines bathing and washing their clothes in a rain-filled bomb crater, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. American Marines bathing and washing their clothes in a rain-filled bomb crater on Okinawa; wrecked Japanese airplane in background. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/18/45--Marines get a bath--American Marines bathe and wash their clothes in a rain-filled bomb crater on Okinawa after helping overpower the Japanese resistance on the Pacific Island. A wrecked enemy plane lies in the background.--Marine Corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority. (List A out) 7139."Okinawa, Japan. 18 July 1945
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07/18/1945
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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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Bathing--Okinawa
Soldiers--American--Okinawa
Airplanes--Japanese--Okinawa
Craters--Okinawa