Photos Taken in Nanjing | World War II Database

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Japanese General Iwane Matsui marching into Nanjing, China, 17 Dec 1937, photo 1 of 2	Japanese General Iwane Matsui marching into Nanjing, China, 17 Dec 1937, photo 1 of 3

Japanese General Iwane Matsui marching into Nanjing, China, 17 Dec 1937, photo 2 of 3	Japanese officers with Chinese civilians, Nanjing, China, 17 Dec 1937, photo 1 of 3

Japanese officers with Chinese civilians, Nanjing, China, 17 Dec 1937, photo 2 of 3	Japanese officers with Chinese civilians, Nanjing, China, 17 Dec 1937, photo 3 of 3

Japanese soldiers in Nanjing, China, 17 Dec 1937	Japanese troops escorting 450 captured Nanjing policemen, China, 17 Dec 1937; most of them would be executed en masse later that day outside the West Gate of the city wall

Japanese troops parading in Nanjing, China, 17 Dec 1937	General Iwane Matsui dedicating a sacred tree at a memorial for fallen Japanese soldiers in Nanjing, China, 18 Dec 1937

General Iwane Matsui speaking at a memorial for fallen Japanese soldiers at Minggugong Airfield, Nanjing, China, 18 Dec 1937	Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa (3rd Fleet), General Iwane Matsui (Central China Area Army), Prince Yasuhiko of Asaka (Shanghai Expeditionary Army), and General Heisuke Yanagawa (10th Army) at a memorial for fallen Japanese soldiers at Minggugong Airfield, Nanjing, China, 18 Dec 1937

Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, General Iwane Matsui, and Prince Yasuhiko of Asaka in Nanjing, China, circa 18 Dec 1937	Japanese soldiers transporting loot with a cart at a Nanjing city wall gate, China, Dec 1937; note unburied Chinese remains

Japanese troops at the Wuxi Rail Station, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937	Dead Chinese piled on the shore of the Yangtze River near Xiaguan Pier, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937

Japanese soldiers with a Chinese child, Nanjing, China, 19 Dec 1937	Chinese civilians prepared to be buried alive by Japanese soldiers, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937-Jan 1938

Chinese men being registered by newly arrived Japanese occupation, possibly Nanjing, China, late 1937 or early 1938	G3M Type 96 bomber of Japanese Navy Kisarazu Air Group flying over the Sun Yatsen Mausoleum, Nanjing, China, 1938