Japanese soldiers wading out to surrender to a United States boat, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Japanese soldiers, holding their clothes on their heads, walking in chest-deep water towards an American boat so as to surrender. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/24/45--Japanese surrender--Japanese soldiers, holding their clothes on their heads, wade out to surrender to the crew of an American picket boat off the Keranas, a group of islands near Okinawa in the Pacific. The percentage of prisoner taken by U.S. forces is steadily increasing as the war approaches the Japanese homeland.--Navy Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority- (A List out)." Near Okinawa, Japan. 24 July 1945
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07/24/1945
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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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Soldiers--Japanese--Okinawa
Wading--Okinawa
Surrenders--Japanese--Okinawa