Large smoke plume rising from dock, Singapore, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of a large smoke plume rising from a dock in Singapore. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/2/45--Singapore target in flames--A huge geyser of smoke is seen erupting through a cloud formation from the nose of an American B-29 Superfortress during an attack on the empire dock at Singapore. Previous assaults had destroyed a floating drydock capable of handling the largest ships. Singapore has been used as the main clearing center for Japanese war supplies between Japan and her stolen territories.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out). 6972." Singapore. 2 July 1945
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07/02/1945
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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.
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Singapore
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial photographs--Singapore
Smoke--Singapore
Aerial bombings--Singapore