Chart/map showing distances and amounts of men and material moved into the Pacific Theater, 1945

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Photograph. Chart/map showing the vast distances over which U.S. men and equipment were moved to the Pacific Theater of Operations for action against the Japanese. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/4/45--Routes for men and materiel to Pacific--The accompanying chart shows the vast distances over which U.S. men and equipment are being moved to the Pacific theater of operations for action against the Japanese. The blackened areas are those occupied by the enemy. The equipment of a single armored division fills 75 trains and 15 liberty ships, emphasizing the staggering transportation problem still facing the Allies, despite Germany's unconditional surrender.--FF photo serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6522." Pacific Theater. 4 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.214
Date: 
06/04/1945
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Charts
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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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