Two children help carry their family's possessions, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Two boys helping to carry their family possessions, including chickens, from their home to a U.S. military government camp. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/27/45--Moving day on Okinawa--Two Okinawa children help carry their family possessions from their home to a U.S. military government camp near their village. U.S. forces are caring for more than 265,000 Okinawans, providing housing, food, and clothing from materials available on the island. Medical aid is available at 25 dispensaries and four hospitals--Marine Corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority. (List A out) 7226." Okinawa, Japan. 27 July 1945
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07/27/1945
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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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Household moving
Children--Okinawa
Baskets--Okinawa
Chickens--Okinawa