Japanese suicide rocket bomb on Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Marines examining a Japanese manned flying bomb on Okinawa. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/9/45--Captured Japanese baka bomb--U.S. Marines examine a Japanese suicide rocket bomb on Okinawa's Yontan airfield where several of the craft were abandoned by the enemy when the U.S. Tenth Army captured the airbase. The rocket-propelled bomb is manned by a pilot who is carried to his death. American soldiers have named the weapon a baka bomb -- 'baka' means fool in Japanese. A few of the bakas were launched in the Okinawa operation but met with little success.--Marine corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(List A out) 7037." 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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Bombs--Japanese--Okinawa