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Peace Park memorial, Hiroshima

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USS Arizona burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Japanese Troops

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B-29s Bombing Yokohama

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WWII M4 Sherman Tank Crew on D Day

Photographic print of The Japanese troops in Nanking after the city's conquest. Dated 1937.

The Japanese troops in Nanking after the city's conquest.

Aerial view of a B-29 flying over Japanese fields.

B-29 Flying Over Japan's Countryside

Japanese troops marching from their base camp.

Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber aircrews pose in front of one of their aircraft on the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Kaga, 6 December 1941.

Japan: Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber aircrews pose in front of one of their aircraft on the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Kaga, 6 December 1941

United States Navy Grumman TBF-1C Avenger carrier-based torpedo bomber surveys damaged aircraft and instillations burning following an attack on the...

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World War Two Pacific 1943

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Patrolling In The Philippines

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Japanese In The Philippines

An F6F passes over the countryside of Kakogawa, Japan.

American Bomber Flying Over Countryside

Incendiary bombs leveled entire city blocks of downtown Tokyo during air raids in 1945.

Bomb Damage in Downtown Tokyo

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Smoke Pours From Battleships At Pearl Harbor

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Remember December 7th! Poster by Allen Saalburg

These headlines were from a New York newspaper telling of the start of the American-Japanese war, December 7, 1941.

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Terror came to Tokyo in the last weeks of 1944. First, swarms of giant B-29 bombers, roaring over from Saipan, rocked Japan's capital with tons of...

Aerial View Of Tokyo

Marines advancing through Okinawa during the Pacific Campaign of World War Two, Japan, 1945.

American Assault On Okinawa

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Japanese emerges from hiding to surrender to an American soldier.

The constant stream of supplies keep coming, and the American troops stand knee deep in the water passing them to the shore in the Philippines.

An artist's impression of the Battle of Midway, during World War II, June 1942.

Battle Of Midway In World War II

The American destroyer USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, home of the American Pacific Fleet during World War II, 7th...

Destroyer Explodes

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Damaged buildings in the Ginza district of Tokyo after American air-raids on the city, June 1945.

Bomb Damage In Ginza

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World War II P-51 Mustang Fighter Airplane

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World War Two: The Pacific 1945

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World War Two: The Pacific 1945

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China: The Japanese cruiser Nagara on the Huangpu River, Shanghai, Broadway Mansions visible on the horizon, September 27, 1936

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl...

USA-Japan: Headline of the San Antonio Express (Texas) on 8 December, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

After being ordered to withdraw to Australia in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines, as he had promised the Philippine people....

General MacArthur returns to the Philippines.

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MUSHROOM CLOUD ABOVE NAGASAKI, JAPAN

The damaged Hangar No 11 after the 7th December 1941 attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Damage At Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor

Wreckage of USS Arizona after Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Attack, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, Office of Emergency Management, December 7, 1941.

Wreckage of USS Arizona after Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Attack, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, Office of Emergency Management, December 7, 1941

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Peace Park memorial, Hiroshima

Japanese troops in a landing craft, Pacific theatre, 18th January 1942.

Japanese Invasion Troops

In the waist of a Marine bomber, Second Lieutenant Minoru Wada, a Japanese Army transport officer, who was captured on the Island of Mindanao, helps...

Japanese Defector

Japanese Imperial Army Captain Sakae Oba surrenders his samurai sword to Lt. Col. Howard Kurgis at Saipan on December 1, 1945. Oba and 46 other...

Captain Oba Surrenders on Saipan

Model of Ford Island and battleship row was constructed by the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor for use in a propaganda movie.

Japanese Propaganda Model of Pearl Harbor

While shooting down 4 kamikazes that had singled her out for destruction off the coast of Japan, an antiaircraft shell from another ship in the force...

USS Enterprise Hit by Shrapnel

Marine dashes through Japanese machine gun fire while crossing a draw, called Death Valley by the men fighting there. Marines sustained more than 125...

Marine Dashing Through Machine Gun Fire

Marine rifleman signals his companions to hold their fire as a Japanese soldier emerges from a cave in Okinawa, 1945. Persuaded by a smoke grenade,...

Seeing The Light

American Marines of the 6th Marine Division watch as their dynamite charges explode upon a Japanese cave in Okinawa, 1945. USMC photo.

Scratch One In Okinawa

Forces inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese in capture of Buna, New Guinea. On the beach of Buna Mission, last point of Japanese resistance in...

US forces inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese.

Essex class carrier planes bomb Hong Kong, China, January 1945.

US Airplanes Bomb Hong Kong

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These headlines were from a New York newspaper telling of the start of the American-Japanese war, December 7, 1941.

New York Herald Tribune Headlines Japan Declaring War

These headlines were from a New York newspaper telling of the start of the American-Japanese war, December 7, 1941.

PM Daily on United States Backing War Against Japanese

Okinawa: In Suburbs Of Naha--Tired Sixth Marine Division Leathernecks, fighting the stubborn Japs for the possession of Naha on Okinawa Island, rest...

American Soldiers Resting Besides Wall in War Torn Area

Nakajima B6N Tenzan torpedo bomber, known to the Allies as "Jill", flies through anti-aircraft fire during a battle in the Truk Islands. | Location:...

Japanese Torpedo Bomber in Battle

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Prisoners Along the Bataan Death March

Tokyo, Japan: Tojo Suicide Attempt-Japs prop former premier Tojo up shortly after he shot himlself.

Tojo On Floor After Shooting Himself

Browning heavy automatic machine gun crew maintaining a position overlooking Japanese resistance, during the Pacific Campaign of World War Two,...

Pacific Campaign Of World War Two

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