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WW2 Mitchell B-25 Medium Bombers flying in V-Formation

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Peace Park memorial, Hiroshima

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HIROSHIMA AFTER BOMB

Japanese troops marching past a British post.

Japanese Troops

Bombers drop hundreds of incendiary bombs on Yokohama, Japan, during an air raid on May 29, 1945. | Location: over Yokohama, Japan.

B-29s Bombing Yokohama

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USS Arizona burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Troops advance on Bougainville Island against the Japanese occupation troops.

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

B-29 Flying Over Japan's Countryside

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

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

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

Silhouette view of a United States Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bomber of Bombing Squadron 5 from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown flying over...

World War Two Pacific 1943

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.

Troops wade ashore from their amphibious craft onto a still smoldering beach from the pre-invasion bombardment, Leyte Island, Philippines, November...

WWII Landing At Leyte Island

Thick smoke billows up from stricken American warships along battleship row during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii,...

Smoke Pours From Battleships At Pearl Harbor

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

Japanese troops marching from their base camp.

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WWII M4 Sherman Tank Crew on D Day

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

View from the deck of one PT boat as it, and another, patrol the waters of Polloc Harbor, Romblon, Philippines, April 17, 1945. The gunner sits...

Patrolling In The Philippines

Japanese troops advancing through burning oil fields, set alight by retreating American forces, Philippines, 1942.

Japanese In The Philippines

On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Habor in Hawaii. In one attack they sunk almost the entire Pacific Fleet. This photograph shows the...

USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor

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

Photo taken from the top of Mt Suribachi show US ships unloading Marines on the beach, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945.

Ships Unload Marines On The Beach At Iwo Jima

Remember December 7th! Poster by Allen Saalburg

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.

New York Journal American on United States Declaring War on Japan

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

From the Azores in the Atlantic to Zamboanga in the Philippines, both ways around the world, extends the U.S. Front in World War II. Major American...

Map of the U.S. Front

Pacific Theater Re-enactment. March 8, 2014 at The National Museum of The Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Battle Re-Enactments

Low-angle view of US Marines, carrying packs and equipment, as they crouch and run towards the cover of smoke during the inland drive, Iwo Jima,...

Marines On Iwo Jima

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

American Assault On Okinawa

Military vehicle carries DF-21D missile past a display screen featuring an image of the Great Wall of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on...

CHINA-WWII-PARADE

Japanese emerges from hiding to surrender to an American soldier.

American marines landing from barges on a beach at Guadalcanal to begin an attack on the Japanese.

Marines Landing

Marines led by a tank move towards the last strongpoint of the Japanese resistance.

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.

Damaged B-17C Flying Fortress bomber sits on the tarmac near Hangar Number 5 at Hickam Field, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Half A Fortress

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

Battle Of Midway In World War II

Three US Marines from the 1st Battalion, 24th US Marines, 4th Marine Division operate a M2 Browning 50 caliber machine gun upon positions and units...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

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Omaha Beach Soldier.

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

Battery of United States Sixth Army M115 8-inch howitzers from the 61st Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, fires on positions held by...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

Two columns of 1st and 2nd Marine Division troops from the III Amphibious Corps of the United States Tenth Army pass each other on the march going to...

World War Two: The Pacific 1945

Aged Okinawan civilian refugees wait in the shelter of a refugee centre after being evacuated from their homes to escape the fighting between...

World War Two: The Pacific 1945

Nagara was the lead ship of her class of light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after the Nagara River in the Ch_bu region of...

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

Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bomber attack aircraft from the 387th Bomb Squadron, 312th Bombardment Group of the Fifth United States Army Air Force...

World War Two: The Pacific 1944

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

The U.S.S. Neosho, navy oil tanker, cautiously backs away from her berth in a successful effort to escape the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec....

Tanker Escapes Pearl Harbor Attack

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

Coast Guardsmen and soldiers pose with a captured Japanese flag shortly after landing on Leyte Island on the first day of the Battle of Leyte in the...

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B-25 WWII Airplane Underwater

The USS Nevada burns following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese military.

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

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