Troops of the U.S. 188th Parachute Infantry Regiment boarding trucks at Atsugi airfield, Yamato, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Troops of the U.S. 188th Parachute Infantry Regiment boarding trucks at airfield; transport plane in background. Official Caption: "Rome 9/12/45. American parachute troops board trucks at Atsugi airfield in Japan. Troops of the U.S. 188th Parachute Infantry regiment board trucks after leaving the planes which carried them to Atsugi Airfield near Tokyo, capital of Japan, The men will occupy Yokohama, major Japanese seaport city. U.S. Signal Corps photo thru U. S. I. S. Rome ( RX 7503)." Yamato, Japan. 12 September 1945
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09/12/1945
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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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Paratroopers--American--Japan
Trucks--American--Japan
Transport planes--American--Japan