U.S. and Chinese flags being raised, Liuchow, China, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. and Chinese flags being raised in Liuchow, China. Official Caption: "Rome 8/13/45. U.S. and Chinese flags raised in victory over Liuchow. The U.S. (Stars and Stripes) and Chinese flags are raised over the City of Liuchow, in South China, former 14th U.S. Army Air Force Base which was recaptured from the Japanese on June 26, 1945. Liuchow was first of the nine former 14th Air Force Bases retaken from the enemy by July 27. From these bases, Allied planes lend tactical support to advancing Chinese armies. Photo thru U. S. I. S. Rome. 43180-PME. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. For display only. (D list out) Not for publication." Liuchow, China. 13 August 1945
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08/13/1945
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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.
Geography:
Liuzhou
Latitude:
24.317
Longitude:
109.400
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Flags--American
Flags--China
Flag salutes--China
Saluting--China