U.S. Marines destroying Japanese weapons at Futtsu Point, Japan, August 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Marines destroying Japanese weapons with sledge hammers inside a warehouse or storeroom. Official Caption: "Rome. 9/21/1945. U.S. Marines smash Japanese arms stores. U.S. Marines smash Japanese field artillery pieces and small arms stores shortly after landing on Aug. 29, 1945, and taking over one of the forts on Futtsu Point in the Yokosuka Naval Base area of Japan. This was one of the first Allied steps in the disarming of the Japanese. 43867 FN (D List Out) Photo thru U.S.I.S.Rome." Futtsu Point, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. 29 August 1945
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08/29/1945
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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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Futtsu-misaki
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35.317
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139.767
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Marines (Military personnel)--Japan
Artillery (Weaponry)--Japanese--Japan