American Generals Shepherd and Buckner watching front line action, Okinawa, Japan, 1945

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Photograph. Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd and Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner watching front line action from a ridge on Okinawa; other Marines standing nearby. Official Caption: "Rome. 6/29/45--American generals on Okinawa front--U.S. Marine Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd (holding walking stick), Commander of the Sixth Marine Division, and U.S. Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner (foreground, with camera), watch front line action from an Okinawa ridge. This is one of the last photographs taken of General Buckner who was killed by a Japanese shell on June 18 while observing men of his U.S. Tenth Army advance. Three days later his men crushed the last organized enemy resistance on the Pacific island only 375 miles (600 km) from Kyushu, Japanese home island.--Marine Corps photo approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out) 6919." Okinawa, Japan. 29 June 1945

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06/29/1945
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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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Okinawa-jima
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Generals--American--Okinawa
Marines (Military personnel)--Okinawa
Military uniforms--American--Okinawa
Staffs (Sticks)
Binoculars--Okinawa