U.S. bombers sweeping low over storage tanks at a rail yard, Formosa, 1945

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Photograph, aerial. View from a U.S. bomber of a bombing run over a rail yard; bombs circled on picture. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/3/45.—Parafrag bombs from low-flying B-25 bombers of the 5th USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) drift down on storage tanks in the rail yards at Kagi, Formosa. A previous attack destroy [sic] installations in the foreground.--Rome. OWI 6969-4." Kagi, Formosa (Chiayi City, Taiwan). 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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Chia-i, Hsien
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23.500
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120.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Aerial photographs--Taiwan
Railroad shops & yards--Taiwan
Aerial bombings--Taiwan