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Photo #: 80-G-473731

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Four Greek sailors, held prisoner in Japan since 1941, celebrate receipt of food dropped by U.S. planes, circa 29-30 August 1945.
They are in their former prison in a Franciscan convent in Saitama prefecture, about thirty miles north of Tokyo.
Man in center is holding a package of dehydrated green pea soup.
Photographed by Lieutenant Wayne Miller, USNR

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

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26 February 1999