Smoke rising from oil refinery in Ōtake, Japan, after U.S. bombing, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. Billowing smoke rising from oil refinery in Ōtake, Japan, after U.S. bombing. Official Caption: "(Second of a series of two) Rome, 6/28/45--Japanese Oil Refinery Blasted--Smoke billows from Otake oil refinery on Honshu 23 minutes after U.S. B-29 superfortresses began their attack on the important Japanese industrial plant. American bomber attacks on the enemy home island are mounting in intensity daily.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(list A out) 6909 B." Ōtake, Japan. 28 June 1945
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06/28/1945
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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:
Ōtake
Latitude:
34.233
Longitude:
132.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial bombings--Japan
Smoke--Japan
Aerial photographs--Japan