WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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MacArthur signing Japanese surrender aboard USS Missouri, 2 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 4	The Japanese delegation arriving aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, Photo 3 of 7

The Japanese delegation arriving aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, Photo 4 of 7	Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura signing the surrender document aboard HMS Glory off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945; Vice Admiral Junichi Kusaka and Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee were also present

TBM-3E Avenger of Marine Squadron VMTB-132 prepares for catapult launch from USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109) for a mission over Kyushu, Japan, 8 Sept 1945	The Japanese instrument of surrender signed in Nanjing, China on 9 Sep 1945

Dr. Nagai of Nagasaki Hospital inspecting damage caused by the atomic bomb, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945; Nagai would die of radiation poisoning a few days after this photo was taken	Koryu Type D submarines in an assembly shed at the Mitsubishi shipyard, Nagasaki, Japan, 17 Sep 1945

A safe admist bomb damaged landscape,Tokyo or Yokohama, Japan, fall 1945	Captured Japanese aircraft with Chinese markings, circa 1945

Captured Ki-36 aircraft with Chinese markings, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, circa Oct 1945; note damage on building wall	Ensign Dix (far left) and others at New Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, fall 1945

Enterprise en route to New York, early Oct 1945	Japanes mother and child, Tokyo, Japan, fall 1945

Japanese boy on stilts, Tokyo, Japan, fall 1945	Japanese troops removing concrete fortifications in Shanghai, China, late 1945, photo 1 of 2

Japanese troops removing concrete fortifications in Shanghai, China, late 1945, photo 2 of 2	New Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, fall 1945

Policeman, Tokyo, Japan, fall 1945	Ruins of Tokyo or Yokohama, Japan, fall 1945