U.S. rockets support Australian landings at Tarakan Island, Borneo, June 1945
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Photograph. Rockets/missiles from U.S. Navy landing craft streak toward the beach at Tarakan Island. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/4/45--U.S. rockets support Australian landings--Rockets from U.S. Navy landing craft streak toward the beach at Tarakan as American amphibious craft transport Australian forces in the landings on the island off the east coast of Borneo. The oil wells at Tarakan are estimated currently to produce about three and a half million barrels (540 metric tons) of fuel oil annually. These wells had been producing for the Japanese since January, 1942 when the enemy seized Tarakan.--FN photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6521." Tarakan Island, Borneo. 4 June 1945
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06/04/1945
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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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Tarakan, Pulau
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Missiles--American--Borneo
Smoke--Borneo
Landing craft--American--Borneo
Military tactics--Borneo
Naval battles--Borneo