U.S. Marines crowding around a B-29 Superfortress on Iwo Jima, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Marines crowding around a B-29 Superfortress; mechanic working on P-51 Mustang in foreground. Official Caption: "U.S. Marines crowd around a B-29 Superfortress which has made an emergency landing at Iwo Jima. To the right, a mechanic repairs a P-51 Mustang fighter plane. 6663-B."Iwo Jima, Japan. 1945
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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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Iō-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bombers--American--Iwo Jima
Fighter planes--American--Iwo Jima
Marines (Military personnel)--Iwo Jima
Maintenance & repair--Iwo Jima