Two American soldiers outside cave during detonation of charges, Pacific Theater, 1945
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Photograph. Two American soldiers take cover as their white phosphorus charges explode at the mouth of a hillside cave. Official Caption: "The soldiers (circled) run for cover as their white phosphorus charge explodes at the mouth of the cave. This hiding place had been used as a strongpoint by the Japanese on the island. 6520-B."Pacific Theater. Circa 1945
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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:
Smoke--Okinawa
Soldiers--American--Okinawa
Caves--Okinawa