Emperor Hirohito of Japan astride a white horse
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Photograph. Emperor Hirohito of Japan riding a horse past Japanese soldiers. Official Caption: "Emperor of Japan. This is a recent photograph of Emperor Hirihito [sic] of Japan mounted on his white horse. Photo serviced through U.S.I.S. Rome 43365-PNT Approved by U.S. authority (D List out)." Japan. Circa 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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Nihon
Latitude:
36.000
Longitude:
138.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Emperors--Japan
Military uniforms--Japanese--Japan
Horses--Japan
Soldiers--Japanese--Japan