Pictogram showing the relative power of the atomic bomb, 1945
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Photograph. Chart illustrating the relative power of the atomic bomb. Official Caption: "Rome 8/20/45. The blasting power of the atomic bomb. The accompanying chart illustrates the tremendous power of the atomic [bomb] the new Allied weapon which was used for the first time on Aug. 5, 1945 [sic] to blast Hiroshima, a Japanese military center on the main island of Honshu. The new bomb possesses more power than 20000 tons of TNT, a destructive force equal to the load carried by 2000 B-29 Superfortress, the powerful four-engined U.S. bombers that have been attacking the Japanese homeland. Photo serviced through U.S.IS, Rome 43299-FF. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. (D List out). 20 August 1945
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08/20/1945
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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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