U.S. General Joseph W. Stilwell walking through mud during inspection tour of Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. General Joseph W. Stilwell walking through mud with another soldier during inspection tour of Okinawa; military camp visible in background. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/16/45--Stilwell back in field--Wearing his familiar battered campaign hat, U.S. General Joseph W. Stilwell, trudges through rain and mud during an inspection tour of Okinawa. General Stilwell, veteran of campaigns in Burma and China, was appointed Commander of the U.S. Tenth Army on Okinawa following the death of U.S. Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., killed in action. Japanese resistance on Okinawa ended June 20.--International News Photo through OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(List A out) 711." Okinawa, Japan. 16 July 1945
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07/16/1945
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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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Okinawa-jima
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Generals--American--Okinawa
Military uniforms--American--Okinawa
Mud--Okinawa
Hats--Okinawa
Tents--Okinawa