British battleship HMS King George V in the harbor, Guam, 1945
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Photograph. Port side view of the HMS King George V as it enters the harbor at Guam. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--British Battleship at Guam--HMS King George V, flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bernard H. Rawlings, Commander of a task force operating with the U.S. Pacific fleet, enters the harbor at Guam, U.S. central Pacific advance base from which attacks against the Japanese home islands are launched. The British fleet neutralized enemy forced in the Sakishima group of islands south of Okinawa during the Okinawa campaign.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(list A out). 6931." Guam. 29 June 1945
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06/29/1945
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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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Guam
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13.467
Longitude:
144.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Battleships--British--Guam
Harbors--Guam
Cliffs--Guam