Bombs falling on the Mitsubishi Steel Works, Kobe, Japan, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. Explosions rise from the water near offshore ships and from a large onshore factory. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/21/45--Japanese steel plant hit--Bombs rain on the Mitsubishi Steel Works at Kobe and on shipping in the harbor during an attack by U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft. Fleets of American B-29 Superfortresses and carrier aircraft are raking the Japanese home islands at will with little or no opposition.--Navy Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7165."Kobe, Japan. 21 July 1945
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07/21/1945
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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:
Kōbe
Latitude:
34.667
Longitude:
135.200
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial bombings--Japan
Aerial photographs--Japan
Harbors--Japan
Ships--Japanese--Japan