Recently liberated Allied POWs pack their possessions, Aomori, Japan, 28 August 1945

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Photograph. Two emaciated Allied prisoners of war packing their possessions after being freed from a Japanese internment camp. Official Caption: "Rome. 9/21/45. Allied soldiers, freed from Japanese internment, pack their possessions. Two emaciated Allied prisoners of war pack their meager possessions after being freed from a Japanese internment camp at Aomori, near Yokohama, major Japanese seaport city, by U.S. Navy forces on Aug. 28, 1945. A total of 1,494 Allied prisoners of war was [were] liberated in the Yokohama area by August 30. Allied prisoners released after Japan's capitulation on August 14, told of starvation diets, brutality, and torture at the Japanese prisoner of war camps. Photo through U.S.I.S. Rome (d list out) 43884-PPA. For display purposes only not for publication." Aomori, Japan. 28 August 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.532
Date: 
08/28/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Prisoners of war--Allied--Germany
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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.
Geography: 
Aomori
Latitude: 
40.833
Longitude: 
140.717
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Prisoners of war--Allied--Germany