Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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Ruins of Aomori, Japan, 1945	Ruins of Tokyo, Japan, Mar-Apr 1945

Ruins of Tokyo, Japan, Mar-Apr 1945	Ruins of Tokyo, Japan, Mar-Apr 1945

Ruins of Tokyo, Japan, Mar-Apr 1945	Silhouette of a USMC Corsair fighter seen against a burning supply dump, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945

Souvenir hunters on Iwo Jima sawing the propeller off of a wrecked Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter, Mar 1945. They said they would make paper weights out of it later.	TBM-3 Avenger flying over Mt Suribachi on Iwo Jima after US forces had fully occupied the island, Mar-Apr 1945. Note storage tanks, tents, and other improvements set up by US forces.

US battleships New Mexico, Idaho, and Tennessee off Iwo Jima or Okinawa, Feb-Apr 1945	US Marine playing taps at the American cemetery on Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945

US Navy salvaging a Japanese Type A Ko-hyoteki midget submarine from shallows around Okinawa, Japan, 1945	View of the invasion beach on Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945

155mm Gun M1 of US 420th Field Artillery Group set up on Keise Shima about 10 kilometers west-northwest of Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945	Men of the US 10th Army landing on Okinawa, Japan, 1 Apr 1945

US Marines landing on Okinawa, Japan, 1 Apr 1945	US Marines moving across Yontan Airfield, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan, 1 Apr 1945

American ships unloading supplies on the beach of Okinawa, Japan, 4 Apr 1945	Japanese troops being captured by Americans on Iwo Jima, Japan, 5 Apr 1945

Portrait of Yamato's officers two days prior to Ten-Go Operation, Mitajiri Anchorage, Hofu, Japan, 5 Apr 1945; note Rear Admiral Kosaku Ariga at front center	Three Japanese soldiers emerged from their hiding place to surrender, Iwo Jima, 5 Apr 1945