Japanese prisoners of war, Okinawa, Japan, 1945

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Photograph. Crowd of Japanese prisoners of war stand behind a barbed wire fence, inside camp, on Okinawa; thatch-roofed buildings visible. Official Caption: "Rome. 8/2/45. U.S. Marines Guard Japanese Prisoners On Okinawa. The more than 300 Japanese soldiers who surrendered to the U.S. Sixth Marine Division during the final 24-hours of organized resistance on Okinawa, main Ryukyu (Loochoo) island wrested from the Japanese, June 20, 1945, crowd a prisoner of war stockade on the strategic island. The toll of Japanese prisoners taken on the island through June 27 was 9,948, U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of Allied naval forces in the Pacific, announced. Many of the prisoners taken after organized resistance ceased walked up to American patrols waving surrender pamphlets scattered over the captured island by U.S. planes. PHOTO THROUGH ROME U.S.I.S. APPROVED BY APPROPRIATE U.S. AUTHORITY. A & B lists out."”Okinawa, Japan. 02 August 1945

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08/02/1945
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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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Okinawa-jima
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Prisoners of war--Japanese--Okinawa
Barbed wire--Okinawa
Stockades--Okinawa