Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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A Boeing B-29 Superfortress of the 9th Bomb Group comes in for a landing on Iwo Jima, Mar 10, 1945. Note P-51D Mustang in the foreground.	A Bulldozer with the US Marines 32nd Sea Bees cutting a road to the summit of Mt Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Mar 10, 1945. In 50 years of occupation, the Japanese had never built a road to the top of Suribachi.	A US Marine forward base nestled into the few pieces of foliage left on the island, Iwo Jima, Mar 10, 1945	B-29 crash-landed on Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, after fighters disabled two engines on a bombing run over Osaka, 10 Mar 1945. Photo 1 of 2.

B-29 crash-landed on Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, after fighters disabled two engines on a bombing run over Osaka, 10 Mar 1945. Photo 2 of 2.	Charred mother and child after the Operation Meetinghouse bombing, Tokyo, Japan, 10 Mar 1945	Charred remains of Japanese civilians after the Operation Meetinghouse bombing, Tokyo, Japan, 10 Mar 1945	Chuo (foreground) and Koto (background) sections of Tokyo, Japan reduced to ruins after the Operation Meetinghouse bombing, 10 Mar 1945; note Shin-ohashi Bridge across Sumida River

Columns of vehicles transferring supplies up from the beach on Iwo Jima, Mar 10, 1945.	USAAF Capt Arthur Bridge sitting in the cockpit of his P-51D Mustang as his crew chief, Sgt JM Thompson, gasses the plane, Iwo Jima, Mar 10, 1945. Note Colt 1911A sidearm in front of the windscreen.	The sextet of US Army African-American soldiers who risked their lives to save a near-drowning US Marine at Iwo Jima, 11 Mar 1945	Patrol Boat No. 102, Kure, Japan, 12 Mar 1945

The official flag raising at the American Headquarters on Iwo Jima immediately after Nimitz's proclamation of victory, 14 Mar 1945	A wrecked M4 Sherman tank showing a shell hit on its outer wooden timbers, Iwo Jima, 15 Mar 1945.	North American P-51D Mustangs of the 47th Fighter Squadron on Iwo Jima prepare for raid on Chichi Jima, Mar 15, 1945. Note Mt Suribachi in the background.	Private First Class H. L. Miles and Corporal C. V. Corley of US Marines rested during a lull in battle, Iwo Jima, Japan, 15 Mar 1945

Strike photo taken by aircraft from USS Bunker Hill showing an SB2C Helldiver from Bombing Squadron VB-84 over Miyazaki Airfield on southern Kyushu, Japan, 17 Mar 1945	Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith and Colonel Dudley S. Brown surveying wreckages at the Iwo Jima invasion beaches, circa Mar 1945	Marines and Army ground crews look over the first Sikorsky R-4 helicopter to land in the fighter strip on Iwo Jima, Mar 23, 1945.	A Japanese tank wedged between banks of solid earth was very difficult for US Marines to see or attack from the front, Iwo Jima, Mar 25, 1945.