U.S. soldiers crossing river on floating pontoon bridge, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. soldiers crossing a river on a pontoon bridge. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/6/45--U.S. soldiers cross river on Okinawa--Infantrymen of a U.S. Tenth Army Corps on Okinawa cross a river on a pontoon bridge in their offensive against the Japanese. The picture was made during a move up to assault one of the many ridges of the hilly terrain where the enemy was entrenched with heavy artillery and mortars. By June 4, the Tenth Army had taken three of Okinawa's chief cities and had broken through a front so bitterly defended that it had become known as 'The Little Siegfried Line'.--FA Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6542." Okinawa, Japan. 6 June 1945
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06/06/1945
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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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Soldiers--American--Okinawa
Pontoon bridges--Okinawa
Rivers--Okinawa