Smoke rising from Japanese-held Paoching, China, after bombing by the U.S. Army Air Force, 1945
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Photograph. Aerial photograph of smoke rising from Japanese-held Paoching, China, after bombing by the U.S. Army Air Force. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/29/45--Japanese blasted at Paoching--Smoke blankets Japanese-held Paoching, enemy supply and troop concentration point in the Siang corridor of central China, after bombers of the 14th U.S. Army Air Force dropped 25 tons of incendiaries. The American attack caught Japanese troops and supplies on the way to the Chihkiang front where Chinese ground forces have repulsed the Japanese drive.--14th air force photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. (6347)." Paoching, China. 29 May 1945
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05/29/1945
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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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Shaoyang
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27.167
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111.417
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial bombings--China
Aerial photographs--China
Smoke--China