Two American soldiers sharing a foxhole with a war orphan on Okinawa Island, Japan, 1945
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Photograph. A war orphan found on Okinawa sleeps between U.S. Marines who have shared with him their foxhole and their rain gear. Official Caption: "Rome. June 1, 1945--Americans share foxholes with war orphan--A war orphan found on Okinawa sleeps between U.S. Marines who have shared with him their foxhole and their raincovers. Okinawa civilians have been sheltered in refugee camps by the Americans since they invaded the island. Although U.S. forces have taken the island's capital and main port, Naha, the Japanese--by May 30, 1945--were continuing desperate suicide air attacks against U.S. shipping off the island,--FMC Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6486." Okinawa, Japan. 1 June 1945
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06/01/1945
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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
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Marines (Military personnel)--Okinawa
Foxholes--Okinawa
Children--Okinawa
Orphans--Okinawa