Australian tank landing on Tarakan Beach, Borneo, 1945
Description:
Photograph. An Australian tank rolls from an American landing craft across a pontoon ramp to the beach at Tarakan. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/5/45--Australian tank lands on Tarakan beach--An Australian tank rolls from an American LST (Landing ship, Tanks) across a pontoon ramp to the beach at Tarakan during the landings on the island off the east coast of Borneo. A U.S. Navy amphibious units transported troops and supported the landings on the oil-rich island which, for some months had been virtually cut off from Japan's home islands by Allied air and naval might.--FN photo--serviced by Rome OWI (A List Out)--approved by appropriate military authority. 6579."Tarakan, Indonesia. 5 June 1945
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06/05/1945
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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.
Geography:
Tarakan
Latitude:
3.333
Longitude:
117.633
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Tanks (Military science)--Australian--Borneo
Landing craft--American--Borneo
Soldiers--Australian--Borneo
Amphibious operations--Borneo