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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-339354

Surrender of Japan, 1945


A Curtiss SB2C-4 "Helldiver" bomber on patrol over Tokyo, 28 August 1945.
Photographed from a USS Shangri-La (CV-38) plane by Lieutenant G. D. Rogers.
Note light traffic on the city streets, also burned out areas and damaged buildings.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 117KB; 605 x 675 pixels

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22 February 1999