Smoke billows from a flamethrower used by U.S. Marines, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Distant view of U.S. Marines sealing off Japanese caves using tanks. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--Marines seal off Japanese caves--U.S. Sixth Marine Tank Units wipe out Japanese caves and pillboxes during the advance on Okinawa which fell to American forces June 21. One tank (left) lets go with a flamethrower at a cave while other tanks hurl 75mm. shells at the strongholds and lay down a curtain of machine gun fire.--Marine Corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (A list out) 6977." Okinawa, Japan. 3 July 1945
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07/03/1945
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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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Tanks (Military science)--American--Okinawa
Flamethrowers--Okinawa
Caves--Okinawa