Japanese oil refinery bombed on Honshu Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Aerial photograph of the Otake Oil Refinery being bombed by American forces. Official Caption: "(One of a series of two) Rome, 6/28/45--Japanese oil refinery blasted--The Otake Oil Refinery, 27 miles (44km) from Tokuyama on the Japanese home island of Honshu, looked like this to crewmen of U.S. B-29 Superfortresses as they attacked it. The second picture shows the same place 23 minutes after the first B-29 dropped its bombs. All the U.S planes returned safely to their bases in the Marianas.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority. (List A out) 6909A."Honshu Island, Japan. 28 June 1945
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06/28/1945
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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.
Geography:
Honshū
Latitude:
36.000
Longitude:
138.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial photographs--Japan
Aerial bombings--Japan
Petroleum industry--Japan