U.S. Army power shovel loading a truck with debris from nearby war damaged buildings, Philippines, 1945

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Photograph. U.S. Army power shovel loading a truck with debris from nearby war damaged buildings; damaged cityscape in background. Official Caption: "Rome 6/13/45--U.S. Army helps rebuild Manila--U.S. Army steam shovels and bulldozers begin the mammoth job of clearing away demolished buildings in Manila, Philippines Islands capital, before starting reconstruction. With the help of the islanders, U.S. Army engineers are repairing or replacing buildings wantonly fired and blasted by the Japanese as they retreated. U.S. troops entered Manila on Feb. 4, 1945 and brought an end to enemy resistance 19 days later. After the liberation of the city, U.S. troops regrouped for the final phases of the campaign on Luzon, main Philippine Island.--PME photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6689." Manila, Philippines. 13 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.340
Date: 
06/13/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Machinery--American--Philippines
War damage--Philippines
Trucks--American--Philippines
Cityscapes--Philippines
Steam shovels--American--Philippines
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: 
Manila
Latitude: 
14.617
Longitude: 
120.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Machinery--American--Philippines
War damage--Philippines
Trucks--American--Philippines
Cityscapes--Philippines
Steam shovels--American--Philippines