Photos Taken on 28 Sep 1945 | World War II Database


Aerial view of devastated Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Sep 1945; note Senso-ji temple	Aerial view of the Imperial Palace and neighborhoods to its east, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Sep 1945	Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting Admiral William Halsey with a gold star in lieu of a fourth award of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal aboard USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor, 28 Sep 1945.

Japanese tank crew bringing a Type 95 Ha-Go light tank to men of Australian 2/4 Armoured Regiment after surrendering Rapopo Airfield, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 28 Sep 1945	Lieutenant General Lu Han at the Japanese surrender ceremony for northern French Indochina in Hanoi, 28 Sep 1945	Lieutenant General Yuitsu Tsuchihashi at the Japanese surrender ceremony at Hanoi, French Indochina, 28 Sep 1945	San Francisco off Korea, 28 Sep 1945; note SOC aircraft on catapults

Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945

Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945; note National Diet Building