Wounded Okinawan man treated by U.S. medical corpsmen, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Comforted by his wife, an Okinawan man wounded in the battle for the island is given aid by U.S. medical corpsmen. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/25/45--Wounded Okinawan treated--Comforted by his wife, an Okinawa civilian wounded in the battle for the island is given aid by U.S. medical corpsmen. Japanese organized resistance on the strategic island, only 375 miles (600 km) from Japan, ended on June 21, 1945, after bitter fighting.--International Al News through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (A List) [number cut off]." Okinawa, Japan. 25 June 1945
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06/25/1945
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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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Medical personnel--American--Okinawa
Wounds & injuries--Okinawa
Litters--Okinawa
Spouses--Okinawa