Photographs taken on Okinawa during 1945.
These photographs were taken by a unidentified United States Airforce Officer.
The following set of (7) pictures were taken on Ie Shima island off the coast of Okinawa on 19 August 1945,when Japanese envoys were summoned to Manila to meet with General MacArthur to discuss unconditional surrender. The Japanese envoys used Ie Shima as a transit point in the journey south. These pictures were sold as a set at Post Exchanges on Okinawa. |
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Japanese delegation debarked from U.S. aircraft |
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Check out the Japanese Pilot's headgear in the backseat! |
Japanese Soldiers boated in to Okinawa from an outlying island. |
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The start of B.C. Street |
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Work on the farm |
Party Girl |
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Working the Seaweed |
Bath in the rice paddy |
Civilian Police |
Obaa-san |
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Dump Explosion or battle photograph? |
Nice basket of Seaweed for Miso soup! |
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 Ojii-san |
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 Japanese surprize attack on Yontan Airfield |
 Probably Kadena or Yonton Airfield |
Poor Soul buried in rubble |
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