Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 4 of 4	Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945

P-51D Mustangs of the 47th & 531st Fighter Squadrons at South Field, Iwo Jima, May-July 1945. Note also the PB4Y-1 Liberator of Navy Patrol Squadron VPB-116.	Rear view of J7W Shinden prototype aircraft, Japan, 1945

Strike photo taken by US carrier planes during an air attack on Kure Naval Arsenal, Hiroshima, Japan, Jul 1945. Note anti-aircraft bursts and screening smoke in addition to bomb impacts.	TBM-3 Avenger of Marine Squadron VMTB-242 taxiing past USAAF P-51D Mustangs at Iwo Jima's Motoyama Airfield No 1, 1945.

US Marine code talker Private Leslie Hemstreet at a shrine in Okinawa, Japan, 1945	US Marine code talker Samnuel Sandoval of III Amphibious Corps Signal Battalion underneath a Torii gate on Okinawa, Japan, 1945

Remains of General Mitsuru Ushijima and Lieutenant General Isamu Cho, Okinawa, Japan, 5 Jul 1945	Planes from USS Essex on a raid over Japan on 10 Jul 1945 with Mt Fuji in the background. Plane in foreground is a TBM Avenger and those beyond are SB2C Helldivers.

USS South Dakota's 16-inch guns firing on the city of Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan, 14 Jul 1945	Strike photo taken by USS Hancock aircraft showing an attack on the Yokosuka Navy Yard, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 18 Jul 1945. Note bomb splashes.

Camouflaged Japanese destroyers along the shoreline of Kurahashi Jima, Japan, 24 Jul 1945; photo taken by USS Ticonderoga aircraft	Carriers Amagi (near bomb splashes) and Katsuragi (center-right, heavily camouflaged) under attack, Kure, Japan, 24 Jul 1945

Hyuga under air attack, Kure, Japan, 24 Jul 1945	Ise under air attack, Kure, Japan, 24 Jul 1945

Ise under attack, Kure, Japan, 24 Jul 1945; photograph taken from a US Navy aircraft	Aerial photo of Aoba near Kure, Japan, 28 Jul 1945; photograph taken by an aircraft from USS San Jacinto

B-25J Mitchell bombers of the 41st Bomb Group armed with Mark XIII torpedoes prepare for take-off from Yonton Airfield, Okinawa bound for an attack on Japanese shipping at Sasebo, Japan, 28 Jul 1945.	Bombs and torpedoes from US Third Fleet carrier aircraft exploding around battleship Haruna, Kure Bay, Japan, 28 Jul 1945