P-51 Mustang fighter planes and a B-29 Fortress bomber at airfield, Iwo Jima, 1945
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Photograph. P-51 Mustang fighter planes and a B-29 Fortress bomber at airfield on Iwo Jima. Official Caption: "U.S. P-51 Mustang fighter planes, lined up on an airstrip of the Seventh U.S. Fighter Command's base on Iwo Jima, are viewed from the engine nacelle of a B-29 Fortress. In the background is a B-29, one of many of the huge bombers which has used the base as an emergency landing field on long missions from Marianas bases to targets in Japan. 6663-A."Iwo Jima, Japan. 1945
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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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Iō-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Fighter planes--American--Iwo Jima
Bombers--American--Iwo Jima
Air bases--American--Iwo Jima