American tank aiming its flame thrower at Japanese position on Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. American tank aiming its flame thrower at Japanese position on an Okinawa hillside. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/13/45--U.S. flame-throwing tank attacks Japanese--A U.S. flame-throwing tank pours fire at Japanese position on an Okinawa hillside as American forces overcome the bitter enemy resistance encountered since their landings on the island on March 31, 1945. By June 11, marine and Tenth Army troops were smashing the last fanatical stand of the Japanese on Okinawa, having launched a heavy frontal assault in the island's southern tip.--FMC photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6693." Okinawa, Japan. 13 June 1945
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06/13/1945
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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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Tanks (Military science)--American--Okinawa
Flamethrowers--Okinawa
Smoke--Okinawa