Japanese fragmentation grenade, hidden in a head of cabbage, Okinawa Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Japanese fragmentation grenade, hidden in a head of cabbage. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/18/45--Deadly food--A Japanese fragmentation grenade, hidden in a head of cabbage, is discovered by a U.S. Marine demolition expert on Okinawa Island. The deadly booby trap was set to explode if the cabbage was pulled.--Marine Corps photo approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out)." Okinawa Island, Japan. 18 July 1945
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07/18/1945
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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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Okinawa-jima
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Grenades--Okinawa