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Captured Japanese Zero aircraft at Buna Airfield

A captured Japanese Zero aircraft at the airstrip in Buna, Papua. The aircraft shows bullet holes in the wing from being strafed by Allied fighters.…

Robert T. Smith and P-40 Warhawk in Kunming

Flight leader and fighter ace Robert "R.T." Smith standing next to a Curtiss P-40 fighter at Kunming, China. The image shows the "Flying Tiger"…

Li Xiuying in hospital, Nanjing Massacre

Photograph of Li Xiuying receiving medical treatment at Drum Tower Hospital, taken by American missionary John Magee. Li Xiuying was a 19-year-old…

A 16 year-old girl raped by Japanese soldiers during the Nanjing Massacre

Photograph depicting a 16 year-old Chinese gil who was raped and infected with a venereal disease by Japanese soldiers during the Nanjing Massacre

Radio Speech by the Japanese Prime Minister (Prince Konoye)

A translated radio address by Japanese Prime Minister Prince Konoye explaining Japan's policy after the fall of Wuhan.

72nd Shinbu 1945 Kamikaze

Photograph taken 26 May 1945 of five corporals from the 72nd Shinbu Squadron the day before their tokkō (Kamikaze) mission. Front row (left to right):…

Yue Yi-chin

Yue Yi-chin, an Air Force ace pilot during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Parris Island, South Carolina. Student ready for flight in glider plane

1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller. Notes: Photographed by Alfred Palmer or Pat Terry. File print misnumbered LC-USW3-2534-E;…

USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan

USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan

1945 Pacific Japanese Control

1945 Pacific Japanese Control