Japanese prisoners of war being evacuated from Iwo Jima Island, Japan, 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war being evacuated from Iwo Jima. Official Caption: "Rome 8/2/45. JAPANESE PRISONERS EVACUATED FROM IWO JIMA. Japanese soldiers taken prisoner by U.S. forces on IWO JIMA, former Japanese island outpost, are evacuated from the volcanic island on a U.S. transport. U.S. forces invaded Iwo March 31, 1945, and organized resistance ceased April 15. U.S. forces took 1,038 prisoners on Iwo, as compared to 9,945 Japanese soldiers who surrendered to U.S. forces on the Ryukyu (Loochoo) island of Okinawa through June 27. Organized resistance on Okinawa ended June 20. Okinawa is 375 miles (600 km.), from Japan. PHOTO THROUGH ROME U.S.I.S. APPROVED BY AOPPROPRIATE U.S. AUTHORITY. A & B lists out." Iwo Jima, Japan. 2 August 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.682
Date: 
08/02/1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
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Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
Campaign / Event: 
Iwo Jima (February 1945)
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Topical Subjects: 
Prisoners of war--Japanese--Iwo Jima
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
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: 
Iō-jima
Latitude: 
24.783
Longitude: 
141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Prisoners of war--Japanese--Iwo Jima
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima