| World War II Database

29,016 items in this album on 1,451 pages.


Truman holding a copy of Chicago Tribune that mistakenly anticipated his defeat in the 1948 election by Thomas Dewey, Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 3 Nov 1948, photo 2 of 2	Pensacola in Puget Sound, en route for disposal as target, 9 Nov 1948	Former Prime Minister Koki Hirota listening to Sir William Webb of Australia sentencing him to death at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Ichigaya Court, Tokyo, Japan, 12 Nov 1948	Hideki Tojo receiving his death sentence, Tokyo, Japan, 12 Nov 1948

Decommissioning of USS Blackfin, Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 19 Nov 1948	Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft being used to transport cattle by Javanese, 28 Nov 1948	Javanese natives operating Japanese-built Daihatsu-class landing craft, 28 Nov 1948	Displaced persons boarding merchant ship Svalbard at Genoa, Italy, Dec 1948; many of these passengers would later be disembarking in Australia

Su Yu, Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and Tan Zhenlin, China, Dec 1948	Canadian Ford CMP truck in post-war service as an ambulance in Poerworedjo, Java (now Purworejo), 1 Dec 1948.	F4U-4 Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-212 in flight over Wright Memorial, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States, 17 Dec 1948; seen in Feb 1949 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	The last signatures of (right to left) Kenji Doihara, Iwane Matsui, Hideki Tojo, and Akira Muto shortly before their executions, 22 Dec 1948

N3N-3 aircraft of US Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine at rest, Portland, Oregon, United States, 23 Dec 1948	A B-29A Superfortress at rest at Naval Air Station St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1949.	Captured Japanese Navy Type 0 Transport (Showa L2D) with Chinese markings at an airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 1949	Chief of State Bao Dao reviewing South Vietnamese troops, circa 1949

Close-up of the manned wingtip pods on Lockheed-Vega B-17G Fortress bomber 44-85784 being tested at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio in 1949.	DH.89 Dragon Rapide aircraft of Weston Ltd., Liverpool (Speke) Airport, England, United Kingdom, 1949	Du Yuming in captivity, China, 1949	Edmund Veesenmayer at the Nuremberg Trials, Germany, 1946-1949