Smoke and debris erupting from the Chikunan Rail Yards, Formosa, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View from a U.S. bomber of smoke and debris erupting from a rail yard after a bombing run. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/3/45--Smoke and debris erupt from the Chikunan rail yards in Formosa during an attack by Philippines-based B-25 bombers of the 5th USAAF.--Rome OWI. 6969-7." Chikunan, Formosa (Zhunan, Taiwan). 03 July 1945
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07/03/1945
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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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Chu-nan
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24.683
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120.867
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Explosions--Taiwan
Aerial bombings--Taiwan
Railroad shops & yards--Taiwan
Aerial photographs--Taiwan