Military cemeteries for members of the 20th Bomber Command in India and Western China, 1945
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Photograph. Military cemeteries for members of the 20th Bomber Command in India and Western China. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--American fliers buried far from home--Fliers of the 20th U.S. Bomber Command who died fighting the Japanese in China, Burma and India rest in graves in India 9upper photo) [sic] and in Western China (lower photo). U.S. victories against the Japanese have been bought at a considerable cost in casualties on June 8, 1945. Total U.S. Army and Navy casualties were 1,012,049 of which 895,834 were Army and 116,215 Navy. The figures include 185,670 Army dead and 44,503 Navy dead.--Army photos through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(list A out). 6935." India and China. 29 June 1945
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06/29/1945
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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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