U.S. Corporal Melosh reading a copy of the book "Our Enemy Japan" in England, July 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Corporal Joseph Melosh, wearing combat helmet and holding rifle, sits outside reading a copy of the book "Our Enemy Japan"by Wilfrid Fleisher. Tents in background. "Rome, 7/23/45--Preparing for new foe--U.S. Corporal Joseph Melosh, a typical 'GI Joe' of the European theater of operations, reads up on the Japanese while waiting in a staging area in England for redeployment to the Pacific.--OWI staff [illegible]. England. 23 July 1945
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07/23/1945
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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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England
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53.000
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-2.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--England
Reading--England
Rifles--American--England
Military uniforms--American--England