U.S. Marine using flame thrower on Okinawa Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Marine using flame thrower on a Japanese sniper's nest on side of cliff. Official Caption: "Rome. 6/20/45--Routing Japanese on Okinawa--A U.S. Marine uses his flame thrower on a Japanese sniper's nest on Okinawa. Tombs, caves, and pillboxes formed part of the defenses used by the enemy to slow the American drive on the island and which made every yard gained by U.S. forces costly in lives and time, but by June 19 the bitter enemy resistance was breaking up.--Marine Corps Photo through OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome. OWI (A List Out) 6806."Okinawa Island, Japan. 20 June 1945
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06/20/1945
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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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Marines (Military personnel)--Okinawa
Flamethrowers--Okinawa