Japanese prisoners of war arriving in San Francisco, California, 1945

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Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war carrying their personal belongings down a gangway from the transport that brought them from the South Pacific to the United States. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/31/45. Japanese prisoners of war arrive in U.S. port. Japanese prisoners of war, part of a large shipment brought to the U.S. Pacific coast port of San Francisco, carry their personal belongings down a gangway from the transport that brought them from the south Pacific. They are en route to an inland prisoner of war camp. Nearly 10,000 Japanese surrendered during the Okinawa campaign, which ended June 27, and in mopping up operations up July 2. Okinawa, 375 miles (600 kms.) from Japan, has provided the U.S. with a powerful base from which to intensify the air assault on enemy targets. Photo through Rome U.S.I.S. Approved by appropriate military authority." San Francisco, California. 31 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.533
Date: 
07/31/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Prisoners of war--Japanese--California
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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.
Geography: 
San Francisco
Latitude: 
37.767
Longitude: 
-122.417
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Prisoners of war--Japanese--California