Pictures Of The Japanese Scene
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Left
Top
As the flag is lowered on the
evening of Japanese surreDded, a
Marine kneels beside the grave
of a comrade in the First Marine
division cemetery on Okinawa.
Center
General Tomoyuki Yamashita
(right) erstwhile “Tiger of Mal
aya”, commander of Japanese
forces in the Philippines, meets
American officers in surrender
preliminaries at Baguio, Luzon,
P. I.
Bottom
The obsolete Jap »avy plane
in the foreground (No. 72) was
one of those attacking P«arl
Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, to start the
war. It rests among a litter of
wreckage on Atsugi airfield near
Yokohama.
In the background is a C-54
transport, loaded with American
troops making a landing.
Right
Top
This starved, * emaciated pris
oner of war rescued from the Jap
camp at Aomori, near Yokoha
ma, shows the effects of malnu
trition and mistreatment at the
hands of the Japanese.
Center
An unidentified Catholic Sister
(center) bids farewell to Thomas
Mescheriakoff, 6 (left) and his
sister Millie, 9, as the children
leave the confines of a Jap in
ternmant camp in the Tokyo
area. They are homeward bound
to their father in San Francisco.
Bottom
Former Jap guards in the Of
una prison camp near Yokohama
bow as ACM3-c Luther P. John
son (forground) of Portland, Me.
and Ensign John Chapman of
Los Angeles, prisoners until Jap
an capitulated, carry their bags
from the camp to freedom.