Smoke screen covering Allied landings on Sadu Island, June 1945

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Photograph. Distant view of a smoke screen covering Allied landings on Sadu Island; small rockets/missiles launching from ship deck in foreground. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/14/45--Smoke screen covers Allied landings--An Allied plane lays a smoke screen to cover the Australian landings on Sadu, a small island six miles (9.6 km) northwest of Tarakan, off the east coast of Borneo, on April 29, 1945. After taking Sadu, the Australians captured Tarakan, then invaded oil-rich Borneo. By June 12, they reported to have seized control of Labuan Island dominating the mouth of Apacious Brunei Bay, and to have driven inland several mines on the Borneo mainland.--PNT photo--serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6694."”Near Tarakan Island, Borneo. 14 June 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.230
Date: 
06/14/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Smoke--Borneo
Missiles--American--Borneo
Military tactics--Borneo
Naval battles--Borneo
Collection Level: 
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: 
Tarakan, Pulau
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Smoke--Borneo
Missiles--American--Borneo
Military tactics--Borneo
Naval battles--Borneo