Surrendering Japanese soldiers moving across the muddy terrain, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Four Japanese soldiers, one of whom is wounded and is being carried by his companions, walking across the muddy terrain of Okinawa after surrendering, U.S. Marines surrounding them. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/9/45--Japanese give up on Okinawa--Four Japanese soldiers, one of whom is wounded and is being carried by his companions, move toward the rear of the American lines on Okinawa after surrendering. They are closely guarded by U.S. Marines who routed the enemy from a cave near Shuri Castle. Okinawa fell to U.S. troops on June 21.--Marine Corps photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out) 7044." Okinawa, Japan. 9 July 1945
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07/09/1945
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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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Okinawa
Prisoners of war--Japanese--Okinawa
Litters--Okinawa