Chinese infantrymen of the Sixth Army marching across airfield, Burma (Myanmar), 1945
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Photograph. Chinese infantrymen of the Sixth Army marching across airfield; two U.S. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport airplanes, one with nose art, in background. Official Caption: "Carrying their battle equipment, veteran Chinese infantrymen of the Sixth Army march across an airfield In Burma [Myanmar] to the planes that will fly them across the Himalaya Mountains to China.--Rome OWI 7008-1." Burma (Myanmar). 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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Myanma
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22.000
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98.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Infantry--Chinese--Burma
Soldiers--Chinese-Burma
Transport planes--American--Burma
Nose art