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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-490442 Surrender of Japan, 1945 Prisoner of War camp in the Tokyo waterfront area, photographed from a U.S. Navy plane on 30 August 1945. Note signs on rooftops celebrating victory and requesting food and a return home. One identifies the camp as # 2B. Others identify the occupants as Americans, British and Australians. Also note several nearby bomb craters and wrecked structures. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 560 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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22 February 1999