Entrance to the 5th Marine Division cemetery, Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. 5th Marine Division cemetery with American flag at half-mast on Iwo Jima; Mount Suribachi in background. "Rome, 7/16/45--The cost of Iwo Jima--American Marines pay homage to comrades who gave their lives in the battle for Iwo Jima. In the 26-day struggle for the Pacific Island which began Feb. 18, 1945, 4189 U.S. Marines were killed, 15,308 wounded and 441 were reported missing. In the same period, 21,000 Japanese were killed. Mount Suribachi is shown in the background.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority. 7108."Iwo Jima Island, Japan. 16 July 1945
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07/16/1945
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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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Iō-jima
Latitude:
24.783
Longitude:
141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Cemeteries--American--Iwo Jima
Flags--American
Mountains--Iwo Jima
Signs (Notices)--Iwo Jima