7,829 items in this album on 392 pages.
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Vice Admiral John McCain arriving aboard carrier USS Shangri-La for Task Force 38 change of command ceremonies, 31 Aug 1945. Note the disbelieving look from one officer seeing McCain’s famous hat for the first time. | Aerial photo taken by aircrews from USS Yorktown (Essex-class) of prisoner of war camps in Japan, Aug or Sep 1945. Note rooftop markings by POWs. | Aerial photo taken by USS Hancock aircraft showing the Japanese battleship Nagato off the Yokosuka Navy Yard, Tokyo Bay, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945 | Crew members of the submarine USS Sailfish gather on the after deck in Groton, Connecticut, United States in Sep 1945 still celebrating the news that Japan had surrendered. |
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F6F Hellcat launching from USS Intrepid’s starboard catapult, 1945. Note SB2C Helldiver and TBM Avenger spotted on the deck. Note also Independence-class light carrier cutting across Intrepid’s bow. | Hangar bay of HMS Colossus while on repatriation duty, Jinsen Prisoner of War Camp, Inchon, Korea, Sep 1945 | Hangar deck of the USS Intrepid transformed into a giant bunk room in Sep 1945 as part of Operation Magic Carpet that transported thousands of US servicemen from the western Pacific to the United States. | Hangar of submarine I-400, Japan, 1945 |
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HMS Colossus off Wusong, Shanghai, China, circa Sep 1945 | HMS Glory at Rabaul, New Britain, Sep 1945 | Hybrid battleship-carrier Hyuga sunk in shallow waters, near Kure, Japan, late 1945 | Japanese Shinyo-class suicide boat seized by the British at Picnic Bay, Honk Kong after the war ended, Sep 1945. |
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Junyo at Sasebo, Japan, crica fall 1945 | Junyo's island, circa fall 1945 | Kairyu-class submarines at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2 | Kairyu-class submarines at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2 |
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Koryu Type D submarines in an assembly shed at the Mitsubishi shipyard, Nagasaki, Japan, circa Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2 | Koryu Type D submarines in an assembly shed at the Mitsubishi shipyard, Nagasaki, Japan, circa Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2 | Post-war photo of a TBM-3 Avenger from Torpedo Squadron VT-27 from the aircraft carrier USS Independence flying over the Japanese battleship Nagato at Yokosuka, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945 | Post-war photo of the hulk of the battleship Hyûga, badly battered and sunk in shallow water near Kure, Japan on 24 Jul 1945. This photo was taken in Sep 1945. |
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