Late-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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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.	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.	Recently freed internees in their quarters at Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong, Aug-Sep 1945

Sailors handling gun powder aboard USS Alabama, off Japan, 1945	Soviet soldiers posing at the throne of Emperor Kangde of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, Xinjin (Changchun), Jilin Province, China, Sep 1945	Soviet troops by the Songhua River in Harbin, China, Aug-Sep 1945	Soviet troops with Chinese civilians, northeastern China, Aug-Sep 1945

Street scene in Chongqing, China shortly after Allied victory, Aug-Sep 1945	Street scene of Kure, Japan, Sep 1945	Street vendors, Tokyo, Japan, Sep 1945	Submarine tender USS Griffin with unidentified submarines (possibly USS Carp, USS Kingfish, USS Paddle, USS Hoe, USS Pogy, or USS Jack), Midway Atoll, 26 Aug-1 Sep 1945.

Submarine USS Tinosa’s battle flag showing 22 Japanese merchant ships sunk, 12 damaged, two islands shelled, and the graphic of the fighting submarine from the ship’s patch.	The devastation of Hiroshima, Japan viewed from the Red Cross Hospital, Aug-Sep 1945	This 11-year-old Japanese girl, a surivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, suffered hair loss, fever, and bleeding gums from radiation poisoning, 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, Aug-Sep 1945

Type 3 Chi-Nu medium tanks and Type 3 Ho-Ni self-propelled guns of the Japanese 4th Tank Division, Japan, mid- to late-1945	United States Army map of Tokyo Bay and the surrounding area, Sep 1945.	US Ambassador to China Patrick Hurley with Mao Zedong and Chiang Kaishek, Chongqing, China, Sep 1945	US and Chinese airmen with a captured Japanese L2D aircraft, China, circa mid- to late-1945