Allied vehicles and troops on Balikpapan Beach, Borneo, July 1945
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Photograph. Allied vehicles and troops among equipment, debris, damaged buildings, and damaged palm trees on Balikpapan Beach. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/24/45--On Balikpapan Beach--Allied vehicles and troops pause on the beach at Palikpapan [sic] amidst the wreckage caused by the Allied air and naval bombardment which preceded the initial Australian landings on the oil-rich Borneo port on June 30, 1945. Ten days later, the Allies held complete control of Balikpapan Bay, one of the best anchorages in the central Netherlands East Indies, and had captured many refineries.--War Pool photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7186." Balikpapan, Borneo. 24 July 1945
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07/24/1945
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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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Balikpapan
Latitude:
-1.250
Longitude:
116.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
War damage--Borneo
Vehicles, military--Borneo
Smoke--Borneo
Amphibious operations--Borneo
Beaches--Borneo