Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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Carrier aircraft of US 3rd Fleet planes attacking battleship Haruna, Kure, Japan 28 Jul 1945; photo taken by aircraft from USS Intrepid	Carrier aircraft of US 3rd Fleet planes attacking battleship Haruna, Kure, Japan 28 Jul 1945; photo taken by aircraft from USS Wasp (Essex-class)

Carrier aircraft of US 3rd Fleet planes attacking cruiser Oyodo, Etajima, Japan 28 Jul 1945; photo taken by aircraft from USS Wasp (Essex-class)	Hyuga sunken in shallow water, near Kure, Japan, 28 Jul 1945; photo taken by USS Shangri-La aircraft

Ise burning, Kure, Japan, 28 Jul 1945	Ise burning, Kure, Japan, 28 Jul 1945

B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs on Japan, circa Jul-Aug 1945	Hyuga sunken in shallow water, near Kure, Japan, Jul-Aug 1945

J7W Shinden, 1940	Japanese Type 5 15 cm AA gun, Kugayama, Tokyo, Japan, 1945

Kikka prototype jet with rocket-assisted takeoff equipment, Kisarazu Air Field, Japan, Aug 1945	Kikka prototype jet, Kisarazu Airfield, Japan, Aug 1945

Painting 'Iwo Jima' by Takeo Terada, 1945	Structures on either side of Kencho Dori in ruins, Okayama, Japan, Aug 1945; the area in lower right corner of the photograph was the Okayama Women's Commercial School (now the Prefectural Library), and the surviving major structures in the background were the Tenmaya department store (left), Chugoku Bank building (center), and the Japanese Red Cross Okayama Hospital (right)

TBM-3 Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 6 flying from USS Hancock flies over ships of Task Force 58 around Okinawa, Mar-Aug 1945	Wreck of light cruiser Oyodo west of Etajima, Hiroshima, Japan, post 28 Jul 1945

Wreck of light cruiser Oyodo west of Etajima, Hiroshima, Japan, post 28 Jul 1945	Mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945

Mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945. Taken by SSgt George R. 'Bob' Caron, the tail gunner on the B-29 'Enola Gay' using a Fairchild K-20 aerial camera.	Kikka prototype jet aircraft with crew, Kisarazu Airfield, Japan, 7 Aug 1945