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US military mail truck in front of a stationary store in Tokyo, Japan, 1951

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Caption     US military mail truck in front of a stationary store in Tokyo, Japan, 1951 ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Tokyo, Japan
Date  1951
Photographer    Unknown
 
Source Information
Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps Thomas H. Swanson Collection via Flickr.com
Link to Source    Link
Identification Code   COLL/5358
 
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Licensing  Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government".

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Added By C. Peter Chen
Photo Size 2,891 x 2,215 pixels



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1. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
3 Jun 2014 09:38:28 PM

While this truck is a venerable “deuce-and-a-half,” it is an uncommon variant. This is an International Harvester model M-5H-6 most of which, like this one, served the US Navy/Marines.

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