Members of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force on Luzon Island, Philippines, July 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Members of the Mexican Escuadrón 201, part of the Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana (FAEM--Mexican Expeditionary Air Force); the men are wearing flight gear and there is an airplane behind them. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/4/45--Mexican airmen join war against Japanese--These Mexican fliers of the 201st Mexican Fighter Squadron, attached to the Fifth USAAF at Clark Field in the Philippines, are awaiting combat assignments in the air war against Japan. They are (L to R): Lieut. Raul Garcia Mercado, Captain Radames Gaxiola, Commander of the squadron; Lieut. Manio Lopez Portillo, Capt. Pablo Rivas Martinez and Lieut. Roberto Urias Abelleyka.--Acme War Pool photo Approved by appropriate military authority--serviced by Rome OWI (A list out) 6991."”Luzon Island, Philippines. 4 July 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.234
Date: 
07/04/1945
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Unit: 
5th Air Force
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Topical Subjects: 
Fighter pilots--Mexican--Philippines
Military officers--Mexican--Phillipines
Collection Level: 
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.
Geography: 
Luzon
Latitude: 
16.000
Longitude: 
121.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Fighter pilots--Mexican--Philippines
Military officers--Mexican--Phillipines