Columns of smoke cover Yokohama, Japan, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of columns of smoke covering Yokohama after American incendiary bombing. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/4/45--After Fire Bombs Hit Yokohama--Smoke and flame from hundreds of fires rise up from vital Japanese port installations in Yokohama after 450 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses drop incendiary bombs in a daylight strike. The big bombers were escorted by P-51 Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima, island outpost captured by American forces March 15.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(A list out). 6997."Yokohama, Japan. 4 July 1945
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07/04/1945
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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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Yokohama
Latitude:
35.467
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139.633
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial bombings--Japan
Aerial photographs--Japan
Smoke--Japan