Japanese prisoners helping repair war damaged Manila, Philippines, 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war being marched by American military police down a commercial street in Manila; military trucks in background. Official Caption: "Rome 8/2/45 JAPANESE PRISONERS HELP REPAIR WAR TORN MANILA. Guarded by U.S. Military Policemen, Japanese prisoners of war in Manila set out to clear the debris from buildings wrecked during the battle for the capital of the Philippines Islands, which was liberated from the enemy on Feb. 23, 1945. By July 2, 1945, five days after organized resistance ceased, 9,774 Japanese prisoners of war had been counted. In the Battle for Okinawa, strategic Ryukyu (Loochoo) island 375 miles (600 km.) from Japan, a total of 9,498 prisoners was taken by June 27. Organized resistance on Okinawa ended on June 20. Photo through Rome U.S.I.S. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. A & B List out." Manila, Philippines. 2 August 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.784
Date: 
08/02/1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
Campaign / Event: 
Retaking the Philippines (1944-45)
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Prisoners of war--Japanese--Philippines
Military police--American--Philippines
Trucks--American--Philippines
Street railroads--Philippines
Collection Level: 
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: 
Manila
Latitude: 
14.617
Longitude: 
120.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Prisoners of war--Japanese--Philippines
Military police--American--Philippines
Trucks--American--Philippines
Street railroads--Philippines