Japanese fighter plane plunging toward the sea in the Western Pacific, 1945
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Photograph. Japanese fighter plane plunging toward the sea. Note damage to tail and right wing. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/16/45--A Japanese Commits Suicide--This Japanese fighter plane, which attempted a suicide dive into a U.S. warship, plunges toward the sea after being brought down by American gunners in the Western Pacific. Part of the tail has been shot away and a wing damaged by anti-aircraft fire. 'We at home can hardly imagine either the delirium of Japanese suicide attacks on our troops, airfields and ships or the heroism of our men in meeting them,' President Harry S. Truman said recently.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Apprived [Approved] by appropriate military authority (List A out). 7111." Western Pacific. 16 July 1945
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07/16/1945
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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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Pacific Ocean
Latitude:
-0.500
Longitude:
-91.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Fighter planes--Japanese
Suicides--Japan