U.S. submarine rescuing the crew of a downed Navy plane in the East China Sea, circa 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of a U.S. submarine rescuing the crew of a Navy plane that was downed in the East China Sea. Official Caption: "Rome 8/2/45. U.S. SUBMARINE RESCUE DOWNED NAVY FLYERS. A U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine rescue the crew of a Navy plane that was downed in the East China Sea. The men wait aboard their rubber raft. On June 20, 1945, the U.S. Navy announced that its submarines had sunk 1153 Japanese ships since the outbreak of the war, Dec. 7, 1941. Of this total, representing well over four and one-half million tons, 167 ships had been sunk during 1945. PHOTO THROUGH ROME U.S.I.S. APPROVED BY APPROPRIATE U.S. AUTHORITY. A & B lists out." East China Sea, Pacific Ocean. 02 August 1945
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Date:
08/02/1945
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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.
Geography:
Tung Hai
Latitude:
29.000
Longitude:
125.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Submarines--American--Pacific Ocean
Search & rescue operations--Pacific Ocean