U.S. warplanes fly over Kyushu Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. U.S. Navy warplanes flying over Kyushu Island, Japan. Official Caption: "Rome, 4/7/45--U.S. Planes Over Japan--Two U.S. Navy carrier-based Helldivers, Divebombers, and a Corsair Fighter-Bomber (top right) pick their targets over Kanoya Airfield, on the Japanese home island of Kyushu. Smoke rises from airfield installations already hit by American planes carrying the war to the enemy's homeland with steadily increasing intensity.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(List A out) 6999." Kyushu Island, Japan. 7 April 1945
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04/07/1945
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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:
Kyūshū
Latitude:
33.000
Longitude:
131.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial photographs--Japan
Landscape photographs--Japan
Airplanes--American--Japan
Aerial bombings--Japan