Smoke and flames rise from an American ship anchored off Okinawa, Japan, June 1945
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Photograph. Smoke and flames rise from an American ship anchored off Okinawa after kamikaze attack. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/20/45--Suicide Pilot Scores--Smoke and flame burst from an American ship anchored off Okinawa as a Japanese Kamikaze plane, manned by a suicide pilot, crashes into it at dusk. Enemy suicide pilots have been active at Okinawa, only 375 miles (600 KM) from Japan but they have paid a terrific price in men and planes, and they failed to prevent the capture of the island by U.S. forces for use as a base for new and greater air attacks on the enemy homeland.--Coast Guard photo through OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out) 6809."Okinawa, Japan. 20 June 1945
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06/20/1945
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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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Suicides--Okinawa
Warships--American--Okinawa
Fires--Okinawa
Smoke--Okinawa
Naval battles--Okinawa