American servicemen unloading bombs for P-51 Mustang fighter planes, Iwo Jima, 1945
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Photograph. American servicemen unloading bombs from a trailer; P-51 Mustang fighter planes nearby. Official Caption: "Ordnance men of the Seventh U.S. Fighter Command at Iwo Jima load bombs under the wings of P-51 Mustang fighter planes. The substitution of bombs for extra fuel tanks enables the Mustangs to operate as fighter- bombers against nearby Japanese targets. 6663-D."Iwo Jima, Japan. 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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Iō-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bombs--American--Iwo Jima
Fighter planes--American--Iwo Jima
Trailers--Iwo Jima