U.S. Fleet Admiral Nimitz welcoming British Navy to Guam, 27 May 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz standing beneath the very large guns of the British battleship King George V and addressing British sailors. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/1/45--Nimitz welcomes British Fleet--Standing beneath the big guns of the British battleship King George V, U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of Allied Naval Forces in the Pacific, welcomes officers and men of the British Navy at Guam, Admiral Nimitz' headquarters, on May 27. He cited the performance of the British Task Force in neutralizing Sakishama group of Islands south of Okinawa as "efficient" and"valuable."--Acme Photo through war pool--Approved by appropriate Military Authority--Serviced by Rome. OWI (A List Out)." Guam. 27 May 1945
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05/27/1945
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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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Guam
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13.467
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144.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Admirals--American--Guam
Military officers--American--Guam
Public speaking--Guam
Decks (Ships)--British--Guam
Military personnel--British--Guam