U.S. Army officer instructing Chinese soldiers near Liuchow, China, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Army officer Claude E. Davis (left) instructing Chinese guerrilla troops in jungle. Official Caption: "8/10/45. U.S. Army officer instructs Chinese soldiers near Liuchow. U.S. Army Lieutenant CLAUDE E. DAVIS (left) instructs Chinese guerrilla troops of Kwangsi Province as they observe planes near the south China city of Liuchow. The former 14th U.S. Army Air Force base of Liuchow was captured from the Japanese on June 26, 1945. It was the first of nine former 14th Air Force bases retaken from the enemy by July 27. From these bases, Allied planes are lending tactical support to advancing Chinese armies." Near Liuchow, China. 10 August 1945
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08/10/1945
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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
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24.317
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109.400
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military officers--American--China
Guerrillas--Chinese--China