U.S. Marines frisking Japanese military officer before boarding the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, September 1945
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Photograph. U.S. Marines searching a Japanese Officer for concealed weapons before he boards the USS Missouri (BB-63). Official Caption: "Rome 9/12/45. U.S. Marines search Japanese officer boarding Missouri. U.S. Marines search a Japanese officer for concealed weapons as he comes aboard the U.S. Battleship Missouri for conferences preceding the formal surrender ceremony. On Sept. 1 [sic], 1945, Allied and enemy officials signed the Japanese capitulation documents aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay, south of Japan's capital. U.S. Signal Corps photo thru U.S.I.S. Rome (RX 7510)." Tokyo Bay, Japan. 12 September 1945
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09/12/1945
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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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Tōkyō-wan
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35.417
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139.783
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military officers--Japanese--Japan
Marines (Military personnel)--Japan
Frisking--Japan
Searching--Japan