American parachute fragmentation bombs falling on rail yard in Chikunan, Formosa (Taiwan), 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of American bombs falling on train in rail yard. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--Descending squarely on a parked train in the Chikunan railroad yards on the northwest coast of Formosa (Taiwan) are parachute fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. B-25 Mitchell bombers swooping in at tree-top level. Four more bombs can be seen heading for their objective in the upper center.--Rome OWI 6969-6." Chikunan, Formosa (Taiwan). 1945
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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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T'ai-wan
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Aerial bombings--Taiwan
Bombs--American--Taiwan
Aerial photographs--Taiwan
Railroad shops & yards--Taiwan