American veteran Yoshina Omiya leaving his home with his seeing-eye dog, Hawaii, 1945
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Photograph. Yoshina Omiya, American veteran, leaves his home in Hawaii with his specially-trained seeing-eye dog; his mother stands in the doorway behind him. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/11/45--Blinded Veteran--Yoshina Omiya, American veteran of Japanese descent, leaves his home in Hawaii with his specially-trained seeing-eye dog. His mother stands in the doorway. A former private in the U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion, Omiya was blinded while fighting the Germans in the Volturno River area in Italy. American soldiers of Japanese descent distinguished themselves in the Italian campaign.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (list A out) 7086."Hawaii. 11 July 1945
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07/11/1945
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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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Hawaiian Islands
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-23.500
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-165.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Veterans--American--Hawaii
Guide dogs--Hawaii
Stairways--Hawaii