U.S. bombers sweeping low over the main rail yard at Shōka, Formosa (Changhua City, Taiwan), 1945
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Photograph, aerial. Taken from a U.S. bomber, the photo shows smoke rising from a rail yard. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/3/45--Sweeping in over the main rail yards at Shoka, Formosa, bombers of the 38th Bomber Group of the 5th USAAF attack the vital transportation center with parafrag bombs and strafe the rolling stock.--Rome. OWI 6969-8." Shōka, Formosa (Changhua City, Taiwan). 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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T'ai-wan
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial photographs--Taiwan
Railroad shops & yards--Taiwan
Aerial bombings--Taiwan