Australian troops landing at Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945
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Photograph. Troops of the Australian Seventh Infantry Division heading for tropical shore in landing craft; large cloud of smoke rising over island. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/25/45--Australians Land at Balikpapan--Troops of the Australian Seventh Infantry Division head for shore at Balikpapan, southeastern Borneo port and oil center, after intensive bombardment by U.S. and Australian airforces and U.S. warships. By July 10, Allied forces controlled the shore area of Balikpapan Bay, one of the best anchorages in the Netherlands East Indies.--Acme photo through OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority. (A List Out) 7198." Balikpapan, Borneo, Indonesia. 25 July 1945
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07/25/1945
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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.
Geography:
Balikpapan
Latitude:
-1.250
Longitude:
116.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--Australian--Borneo
Landing craft--Australian--Borneo
Amphibious operations--Borneo
Smoke--Borneo