Chaplain conducts a battlefield burial on Ie Shima Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. chaplain conducts services, with fuel drums serving as an altar, for Americans who fell during battle on the island of Ie Shima. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/21/45--Battlefield Burial--Amid the smoke of battle on the island of Ie [Ie Shima], a U.S. chaplain conducts services over the graves of Americans who fell while clearing the Japanese off the island near Okinawa in the Pacific. Two fuel drums serve as an altar.--Coast Guard photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (list A out) 7163."Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan. 21 July 1945
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07/21/1945
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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
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Chaplains--Okinawa
Altars--Okinawa
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Okinawa
Smoke--Okinawa