Aerial bombing of Osaka, Japan, 1 June 1945
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Photograph, aerial. Smoke plumes from bomb explosions, rising over port city. Official Caption: "Rome. 8/8/45. U.S. Superfortresses attack Osaka, Japanese port. Fire bombs from U.S. Superfortresses find their mark on docks and warehouses at Osaka, Japan, during a daylight incendiary raid June 1, 1945. By June 21, Japan had been under sea bombardment for eleven days and had been attacked by air for 45 consecutive days and nights. Three different striking forces--battleships, carrier-based planes and land-based planes were pounding Japan's military and industrial areas. Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome. 43070-FA. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. ("A & B List Out")." Osaka, Japan. 1 June 1945
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06/01/1945
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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:
Ōsaka
Latitude:
34.667
Longitude:
135.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial photographs--Japan
Aerial bombings--Japan
Harbors--Japan