Japanese soldiers lie dead near their wrecked plane at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Japanese soldiers who participated in a suicide attack on American-held Yontan airfield on Okinawa lie dead near their wrecked plane; American airplanes in background. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/9/45--Japanese suicide mission fails--Japanese soldiers who participated in a suicide attack on American-held Yontan airfield on Okinawa lie dead near their wrecked plane. The plane, which had been stripped of its equipment, carried 14 Japanese equipped to wreck installations on the field but all were killed or wounded before they could accomplish their mission.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7045." Okinawa, Japan. 9 July 1945
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07/09/1945
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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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Dead persons--Okinawa
Suicides--Japan
Aircraft accidents--Okinawa
Airplanes--Japanese--Okinawa