Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945
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Photograph. Column of smoke mushrooming over Nagasaki after detonation of American atomic bomb over the city. Official Caption: "Rome. 9/21/45--Column of smoke mushrooms over Nagasaki after atomic bomb is dropped--A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet (18,000 meters) into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center Aug. 8, 1945 [sic], from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress. Photo through U.S.I.S. Rome. (d list out) 43888-FA". Nagasaki, Japan. 9 August 1945
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08/09/1945
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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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Nagasaki
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32.750
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129.867
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Atomic bombs--American--Japan
Mushroom clouds--Japan