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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-347131 Emaciated Japanese Naval Personnel Photographed at a Japanese hospital in the Marshall Islands, 15 September 1945. They show the effects of the blockade and constant bombardment of "bypassed" Japanese-held islands in the central Pacific over the last year-and-a-half of World War II. Location is probably Wotje or Maloelap Atoll. Photographed by Photographer's Mate First Class Louis Lazarow, of Naval Air Base, Majuro. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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2 March 1999