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[Bootie]

A group of approximately 40 dead Japanese soldiers on a mountain ridge on Attu Island on May 29, 1943. Several groups of Japanese soldiers were encountered in this manner by U.S. troops, who reported that the Japanese realized they were trapped and decided to either attack in suicidal Banzai charges, or (as in this photo) to commit hara-kiri as a group, killing themselves with their own hand grenades.

 

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A heavily damaged midget submarine base constructed by occupying Japanese forces on Kiska Island, photo taken sometime in 1943, after Allied forces retook the island.

 

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On Kiska Island, after Allied troops had landed, this grave marker was discovered in a small graveyard amid the bombed-out ruins in August of 1943. The marker was made and placed by members of the occupying Japanese Army, after they had buried an American pilot who had crashed on the island. The marker reads: "Sleeping here, a brave air-hero who lost youth and happiness for his Mother land. July 25 - Nippon Army"

 

[Zulu06]

Classic photo of a few GI's and their trusty jeep after knocking out a few Jap tanks, yeah!

 

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Japanese women look for possible flaws in the empty shells in a factory in Japan, on September 30, 1941.

 

[Louis]

good pics !

 

[Louis]

Japanese nurses and soldiers who have surrendered to the americans just before the j apanese capitulation in 1945.

 

[Louis]

Japanese soldiers operate a 50mm heavy grenade launcher during the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War. May 1942.

 

[Louis]

Warrant Officer Kenji Yanagiya March 1919 – February 29, 2008) was a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Zero fighter aces who fought the Battle of Solomon Islands in October 1942 – June 1943. He is best known as the only escort fighter pilot of the Yamamoto mission to survive the war.

 

[Louis]

Type A Kō-hyōteki class Ha-19, at Mare Island, USA, September 1942.

 

[Louis]

1944, a japanese plane shot down during the Battle of Saipan

 

[Louis]

Refueling bomber Mitsubishi Ki-2

 

[Hedgehog]

Some great pic's there @Louis

 

[Louis]

Sniper in pine tree, 1942.

 

[Louis]

Saburo Sakai (1916/2000) the japanese fighter who said he shot down 64 Allied planes, including one of each type the United States flew, but who later befriended the Americans he once fought.

Flying the legendary Zero fighter plane,he was wounded four times. Of the 150 pilots who began in his unit, only 3 survived the war.
In post war Mr. Sakai had visited USA a dozen times, sometimes meeting convivially with American pilots he had confronted in dogfights.
On sept. 22, 2000, died in Japan when was dining with american military officers at the Atsugi Naval Air Station west of Tokyo and suffered a heart attack as he leaned across the table to shake hands with an american; he died later in a hospital.

 

[Louis]

Happy japanese soldiers begin returning home following the demobilization and repatriation of japanese forces who had served overseas. Shinagawa Station, Tokyo, June 1946.

 

[Louis]

In the end of the Battle of Tarawa, photo o two japanese imperial marines who killed themselves by placing their rifle muzzles against their heads and pulling the triggers with their toes, rather than surrender to U.S. Marines.

 

[Louis]

U.S. soldier inspect a rare japanese dummy plane in Okinawa, June 1945.

 

[Louis]

Thread cleaning.

 

[Louis]

Sadaaki Akamatsu (1910 – 1980) ace fighter pilot, shows his subordinates how to shoot down American planes. Atsugi Airfield, 1945.