American servicemen and women at an outdoor market, Manila, Philippines, 1945
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Photograph. Filipinos and American servicemen and women at an outdoor market in Manila. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/28/45--Manila Markets Reopen--Filipinos and American servicemen throng the public markets in downtown Manila, Philippines capital liberated by U.S. forces on Feb. 23, 1945. Many of Manila's schools, shops and stores are reopened, and Filipinos, allied by U.S. Army engineers, are clearing debris from the streets and repairing buildings damaged during the futile Japanese attempt to hold the capital city.--Acme war pool photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (list A out) 6906." Manila, Philippines. 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.
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Manila
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14.617
Longitude:
120.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Markets--Philippines
Soldiers--American--Philippines
Food vendors--Philippines
Women--Military service--Philippines