American dynamite charge blows up a Japanese defense position on Okinawa, Japan, June 1945

Description: 

Photograph. American dynamite charge blows up a Japanese defense position on top of a low hill; tank in foreground. Official Caption: "Rome, June 11, 1945--Americans blast Japanese position--As a medium tank stands by, an American dynamite charge blows up a Japanese defense position in Okinawa, main island if the Ryukyu (Loochoo) chain, where U.S.Tenth Army forces landed March 31, 1945. After weeks of bitter fighting, most of the island was--by June 9--in the hands of U.S. forces. The enemy's main defenses guarding the southwestern portion of the island was suffering from a coordinated attack by U.S. aerial, artillery and naval bombardment.--FLC Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out)--Approved by appropriate military authority. 6617." Okinawa, Japan. 11 June 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.251
Date: 
06/11/1945
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Hometown: 
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Theater of Service: 
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Campaign / Event: 
Okinawa (April - June 1945)
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Topical Subjects: 
Tanks (Military science)--American--Okinawa
Explosions--Okinawa
Smoke--Okinawa
Collection Level: 
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: 
Okinawa-jima
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Tanks (Military science)--American--Okinawa
Explosions--Okinawa
Smoke--Okinawa