
Caption | United States Navy Third Fleet outside Tokyo Bay, Japan, Aug 1945 soon after the Japanese surrender. Visible are at least five fleet carriers, three light carriers, three battleships, and numerous escorts. ww2dbase | |||||||
Photographer | Barrett Gallagher | |||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy | |||||||
Identification Code | 80-G-427931 | |||||||
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Photos at Same Place | Pacific Ocean | |||||||
Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||||
Added Date | 1 Nov 2016 | |||||||
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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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