P-51 Mustang fighter planes in flight on way to Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. P-51 Mustang fighter planes in flight on way to Iwo Jima; view is from nearby airplane. Official Caption: "U.S. P-51 fighter planes fly from a staging area to their base on Iwo Jima. These long-range fighters are capable of conducting strafing attacks on the Japanese home islands and serving as escorts for B-29 Fortress. Bombers operating from bases in the Marianas to Japan. 6663-C."Iwo Jima, Japan. 1945
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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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Iō-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Fighter planes--American--Iwo Jima
Clouds