Japanese patrol torpedo boats being bombed by a U.S. Navy plane, Kyūshū Island, Japan, June 1945
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Photograph. Aerial photograph of anchored Japanese patrol torpedo boats being bombed by a U.S. Navy plane. Official Caption: "Rome. 6/20/45--Japanese vessels attacked--Moored Japanese patrol torpedo boats are bombed by a U.S. Navy plane on the southern coast of Kyushu, Japanese home island. The boats are about 60 feet (18 M) long, carry two torpedo tubes, machine guns and depth charges. U.S. planes are continually stepping up their attacks on industries, defenses, and shipping of the Japanese homeland.--- Navy photo through OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List Out) 6807." Near Kyūshū Island, Japan. 20 June 1945
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06/20/1945
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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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Kyūshū
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33.000
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131.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Torpedo boats--Japanese--Japan
Naval battles--Japan
Aerial bombings--Japan