Japanese suicide plane crashes into ocean near a U.S. Navy carrier, Pacific Ocean, July 1945
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Photograph. Japanese suicide plane crashes into ocean after narrowly missing a U.S. Navy carrier. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/19/45--Guns destroy suicide plane--A column of water off the bow of a U.S. Navy escort carrier marks the end of a Japanese suicide plane that narrowly missed its target. The carrier's anti-aircraft guns knocked the plane down just in time.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(2 in a series--list A out) 7149-2." Pacific Ocean. 19 July 1945
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07/19/1945
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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.
Geography:
Pacific Ocean
Latitude:
-0.500
Longitude:
-91.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aircraft carriers--American--Pacific Ocean
Suicides--Pacific Ocean
Smoke--Pacific Ocean
Naval battles--Pacific Ocean