Small craft idle in the water near Brunei, Borneo, July 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Small craft serving high ranking officers idle in the water near the flagship of a U.S. admiral holding a conference preceding the June 9, 1945, Allied landings on Borneo; sailors on deck in foreground. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/9/45--Prelude to Borneo Landings--Small craft serving high ranking officers idle in the water near the flagship of a U.S. admiral holding a conference preceding the June 9, 1945, Allied landings on Borneo in the Brunei Bay area. Warships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Australian Navy and fighters and bombers of the Royal Australian and 13th USAAF supported the landings. By July 6, Australian troops had seized Balikpapan, Borneo's largest oil center, only a few days after landing in that area.--Navy photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7047."”Near Brunei, Borneo. 9 July 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.178
Date: 
07/09/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Landing craft--American--Borneo
Warships--American--Borneo
Warships--Australian--Borneo
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: 
Brunei, Teluk
Latitude: 
5.083
Longitude: 
115.300
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Landing craft--American--Borneo
Warships--American--Borneo
Warships--Australian--Borneo