Two American machine gunners carrying their equipment up a hill, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. Two American machine gunners carrying their equipment up a hill on Okinawa; other soldiers walking in line behind them. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/9/45--Advancing on Okinawa--Two American machine gunners carry their equipment up a hill on Okinawa in the final stages of the campaign which wrested the Pacific island from the Japanese. The two resemble the typical American foot soldiers, 'Willie and Joe,' immortalized in the cartoons of Sergt. Bill Mauldin.--International news photo through war pool.--Approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List A out) 7042." 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
Machine guns--American--Okinawa
Shovels--Okinawa