Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the water after being hit, Okinawa Island, July 1945
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Photograph. Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the water after being hit by anti-aircraft guns. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/19/45--Japanese suicide plane downed--A Japanese twin-engined suicide bomber crashes into the water short of its target after being hit by anti-aircraft guns of a U.S. Navy escort carrier. The action occurred off Okinawa Island in the Pacific.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(1 in a series--list A out) 7149-1." Okinawa, Japan. 19 July 1945
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07/19/1945
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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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Aircraft accidents--Okinawa
Suicides--Okinawa
Naval battles--Okinawa