Atomic mushroom cloud above Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945

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Photograph, aerial. Atomic mushroom cloud rising above Nagasaki, as viewed from an airplane. Official Caption: "Rome 8/24/45-----Second atomic bomb hits Nagasaki. A smoke column rises higher than 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) three minutes after the second atomic bomb used in history hit Nagasaki, Japanese shipping center on the enemy home island of Kyushu, on Aug. 9, 1945. Three and an half hours later smoke still blanketed the city. The atomic bombing of Nagasaki destroyed 30 per cent of the city's industrial area. The first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese military center of Hiroshima on Aug. 5 [sic] and wiped out 41 square miles (10 sq. kms.) or 60 percent of the city. The atomic bomb possesses more power than 20,000 tons of TNT, has a destructive force equal to the bomb load of 2,000 B-29 Superfortresses and more than 2,000 times the blast power of what previously was the world's most devastating bomb, the 22,000-ton British bomb, the "Grand Slam."”The cosmic bomb was used on the Japanese only after they had rejected the Allies' Potsdam ultimatum. Photo through U.S.I.S. Rome 43441-FN. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. (D List out)." Nagasaki, Japan. 9 August 1945

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08/09/1945
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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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Nagasaki
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32.750
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129.867
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Mushroom clouds--Japan
Atomic bombs--American--Japan