Aerial photograph of the bombing of industrial Osaka, Japan, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of the bombing of industrial Osaka, Japan. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/11/45--Bombs hit Osaka--Despite enemy phosphorous bombs bursting in the foreground, U.S. B-29 Superfortresses plaster Osaka, Japan's second largest industrial center, with more than 3000 tons of incendiaries. The big bombers attacked in daylight with an escort of 150 P-51 Mustang fighters.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (list A out) 7084." Osaka, Japan. 11 July 1945
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07/11/1945
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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 bombings--Japan
Aerial photographs--Japan
Smoke--Japan